12 quotes found
“Talents too many, not enough of any.”
“The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.”
“She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.”
“The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.”
“Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.”
“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”
“Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.”
“I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.”
“No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.”
“Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.”
“Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.”
“Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live.”
