Friday, October 16, 2009

"A Day's Wait":

He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. - E. Hemingway

You don't have to stay in here with me, papa, if it bothers you. - Sick Boy

Poor old Schatz, it's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. - Papa



"The Short Happy Life of Francis Maycomber":

Let's not talk about the lion. - Margot Maycomber

No, I suppose I rate that for the rest of my life now. - Francis Maycomber

Shoot for bone, break him down. - Wilson

Well, now she has something on you. - Francis Maycomber

Why didn't you poison him? That's what they do in England. - Wilson



"Hills Like White Elephants":

Yes, everything tastes like licorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for. - Girl

It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig, it's really not really an operation at all. -Man

No, we can't. it isn't ours anymore. No it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back. - Girl



"A Clean Well Lighted place":

You should've killed yourself last week. - Waiter

The waiter watched him go down the street, a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity. - Ernest Hemingway

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