Friday, October 16, 2009

Olivia Villain's Hemingway Quotes

"A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
1. "Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada."- the older waiter
2. "I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe. With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night."- the older waiter
3. "He dislikes bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing."- narrator

"Day's Wait"
1. "It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush, and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice."- narrator
2. "He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning."- narrator
3. "Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day."- narrator

"Hills Like Whit Elephants"
1. "I know we will. You don't have to be afraid. I've known lots of people that have done it."- the man
2. "I don't feel any way. I just know things."- the girl
3. "All right. I was trying. I said the mountains look like white elephants. Wasn't that bright?"- the girl

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
1. "Yes, darling. That's the way I meant it to be. But the trip was spoiled yesterday. We don't have to talk about it, do we?"- Margaret Macomber
2. "Why didn't you poison him? That's what they do in England."- Robert Wilson

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