The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Quotes

“He was very embarrassed, having brought out this thing he had lived by, but he had seen men come of age before and it always moved him. It was not a matter of their twenty-first birthday.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

“Why not let up on the bitchery just a little, Margot,” Macomber said, cutting the eland steak and putting some mashed potato, gravy and carrot on the downturned fork that tined through the piece of meat.“I suppose I could,” she said, “since you put it so prettily.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber