Ellery's Hemingway Quotelets

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 1. "I never get into bed before three o'clock. He should have killed himself last week." -young waiter 2. "You have youth, confidence, and a job. You have everything." -old waiter 3."It was late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree m,ade against the electric light." -narrator


A Day's Wait

1. "I know they do. At school in France, the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundered and two."
-ill boy

2. "no i mean you don't have to stay if it is going to bother you."
-ill boy

3."He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning."
-narrator/the boy's dad

Hills Like White Elephants

1."It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig. It's nt really an operation at all."
the man

2."No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
-the girl

3."They look like white elephants."(in reference to the hills)
-the girl

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

1."That's better. Please is much better.Now I'll stop."
-Wilson

2."You know something did happen to me. I feel absolutely different."
-Francis Macomber

3."He would have left you too."
-Wilson

4. "I should think it would be even more unpleasant to do it, wife or no wife,or to talk about having done it."
-Wilson

5."Now she has something on you."
-Macomber