This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let’s go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
The cat has complete emotional honesty – an attribute not often found in humans.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
Everything that’s innocent to us is crazy to them.
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.
But did thee feel the earth move?
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
Hunger is good discipline.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.