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Everyone knows many secrets now and everyone has written everything and will write more. It would be fine if it could all be true but lacking that I have attempted in this fiction only to make it interesting. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “Fragments”
The lesson that it teaches has been omitted. You may insert your own lesson and the tragedies, generosities, devotions, and follies of those you knew, unscramble them as in an instrument of transmission and insert your own. You will be wrong of course as I was. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “Fragments”
This book is fiction. But there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw light on what has been written as fact. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “Fragments”
No, I thought. I would not forget about the writing. That was what I was born to do and had done and would do again. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “Nada Y Pues Nada”
Good writing does not destroy easily but you must be careful making jokes. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “Nada Y Pues Nada”
There are many more explainers now than there are good writers. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “Nada Y Pues Nada”
Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now, and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Remorse was a fine good thing and with a little luck and if I’d been a better man it might have saved me for something worse probably instead of being my true and constant companion for the next three years. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
You love both and you lie and hate it and it destroys you and every day is more dangerous and you work harder and when you come out from your work you know what is happening is impossible, but you live day to day as in a war. Everyone is still happy except you when you wake in the middle of the night. You love them both now and you are gone. Everything is split inside of you and you love two people now instead of one. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
All things to be truly wicked must start from an innocence. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”

Before the rich had come we had already been infiltrated by another rich using the oldest trick probably that there is. This is when an unmarried young woman becomes the temporary best friend of another young woman who is married, comes to live with the husband and wife, and then unknowingly, innocently, and unrelentingly sets out to marry the husband. When the husband is a writer and doing difficult work on a book so that he is occupied much of the time and is not a good companion or partner to his wife for a big part of the day, the arrangement has advantages until you know how it works out. The husband has two attractive girls around when he has finished work. One is new and strange and if he has luck he gets to love them both. Then the one who is relentless wins.


It sounds very silly. But to really love two women at the same time, truly love them, is the most destructive and terrible thing that can happen to a man when the unmarried one decides to marry. The wife does not know about it and trusts the husband. They have been through really difficult times and share those times and have loved each other and she finally trusts the husband truly and completely. The new one says you cannot really love her if you love your wife too. She does not say that at the start. That comes later when the murder’s done. That comes when you lie to everyone all around and all you know is that you truly love two women. There is all that time when you do things that are impossible and when you are with one you love her and with the other you love her and together you love them both. You break all promises and you do everything you knew that you could never do nor want to do. The one who is relentless wins.

Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as experienced or as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. The people who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced, but they learn quite rapidly how not to be overrun and they learn how to go away. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “The Pilot Fish and the Rich”
Everyone had their private cafés there where they never invited anyone and would go to work, or to read or to receive their mail. They had other cafés where they would meet their mistresses and almost everyone had another café, a neutral café, where they might invite you to meet their mistress and there were regular, convenient, cheap dining places where everyone might eat on neutral ground. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, “The Education of Mr. Bumby”
Almost everyone lies and lies are not important. Some people we loved for their lies and would wait hopefully for them to start their best ones. Ford, though, lied about things that left scars. Cite Arrow Ernest Hemingway, about Ford Madox Ford, “The Acrid Smell of Lies”