Sunday, October 18, 2009

Sarah's Hemingway Quotes

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
1. "He's lovely. I'm not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me." young waiter
2. "You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant cafe. It is well lighted." older waiter
3. "What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too." narrator

"A Day's Wait"
1. "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa if it bothers you." the boy/Schatz
2. "But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too..." narrator
3."Absolutely, it's like miles and kilometers." father

"Hills Like White Elephants"
1. "That's the only thing that bothers us. It's the only thing that's made us unhappy." the American man
2. "No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back." the girl
3. "I feel fine. There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine." the girl

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
1. "You know you have a very red face, Mr. Wilson." Margot Macomber
2. "Don't worry about me talking... You know in Africa no woman ever misses her lion and no white man ever bolts." Wilson
3. "Well, now she has something on you." Macomber
4. "His wife said nothing and eyed him strangely." narrator
5. "That's better. Please is much better. Now I'll stop." Wilson

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