God pity the Spanish people. Any leader they have will muck them.
It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. But.
Muck everybody but the people and then be damned careful what they turn into when they have power.
His rage began to thin as he exaggerated more and more and spread his scorn and contempt so widely and unjustly that he could no longer believe in it himself.
In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.
Inaccrochable – A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein.
He was nervous, and I did not try to help him any.
I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn – nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody.
He hated injustice as he hated cruelty and he lay in his rage that blinded his mind until gradually the anger died down and the red, black, blinding, killing anger was all gone and his mind now as quiet, empty-calm and sharp, cold-seeing as a man is after he has had sexual intercourse with a woman that he does not love.
I went back to Bill. He blew his breath at me to show how cold it was, and went on playing.
Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands.
In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use.
If a man liked his friend’s painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and it was not polite to criticize them.
E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.
Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty... The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.
Messier service, messier life.
While I had been angry I had demoted him from Scott to Fitzgerald.
Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.
I am not sure Scott had ever drunk wine from a bottle before and it was exciting to him as though he were slumming or as a girl might be excited by going swimming for the first time without a bathing suit.
Every man needs to speak to someone. Before we had faith and other foolishness. Now everyone needs to have someone with whom it can talk to plainly, because a man, in addition to his boldness he can have, feels very lonely.