Sun Also Rises Quotes

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Life Is, Really Living

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Bullfighting, Way

  The Sun Also Rises ch. 2 (1926)

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Moving, Differences

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Nice, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Bad Ass, Typewriters

  "Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Photos from Hemingway's Childhood" by James Joiner, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• 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 by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sex, Talking, Fake

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

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• 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?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Live Life To The Fullest, Feelings, Half

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Get Away, Lost Generation

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, People, Together

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Book, Reading, Sun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Night, Emotion

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Development, Cases, Moron

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.23, Hamilton Books

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• 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?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Car, Together

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Sun Also Rises”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drunk, Littles, Enough

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• A bottle of wine was good company.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Bottles, Good Company

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Men, Lunch

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Knowing, Enjoy

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dream, Businessman, Ought

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Care, Found, Wanted

  The Sun Also Rises ch. 14 (1926)

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• Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Chance, Given, Behave

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• Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Writing, Printing

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Falling In Love, Said, Never Fall In Love

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.32, Hamilton Books

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• Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you're in it, when you're up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don't exactly notice how bad things really are.

  Sarah Dunn

  Relationship, Two, People

  "Secrets To Happiness".

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• In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.

  Kevin Keck

  Character, Emotional, Narrative Structure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mind, Sun, Classic

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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