The Sun Also Rises

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

“How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”

“I am always in love.”

“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”

“This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”

“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”

“Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”

“You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”

“You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.”

“Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.”

“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together”

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.”

“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”

“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch." "Yes." "It's sort of what we have instead of God.”

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

“You are all a lost generation.[with credit to Gertrude Stein]”

“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”

“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

“I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'""This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste."Brett's glass was empty.”

“This is a hell of dull talk... How about some of that champagne?”

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?" "Yes, every once in a while." "Do you know that in abou thirty- five more years we'll be dead?" "What the hell, Robert," I said. "What the hell." "I'm serious." "It's one thig I don't worry about," I said. "You ought to." "I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying." "Well, I want to go to South America." "Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that." "But you've never been to South America." "South America hell! If you went there the way you feel now it would be exactly the same. This is a good town. Why don't you start living your life in Paris?”

“You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.”

“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”