Courage is grace under pressure.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
I am always in love.
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
You’ve such a lovely temperature.
I write description in longhand because that’s hardest for me and you’re closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn’t help it.
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.
You, you, he raged at himself. Yes, you. You told yourself the first time you saw him that when he would be friendly would be when the treachery would come.
Nunca salgas de viaje con una persona que no amas.
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.