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1 " But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything. "
― Naomi Wood , Mrs. Hemingway
2 " Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce. "
3 " She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it. "
4 " The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking. "
5 " Talents too many, not enough of any. "
6 " The longer I don't write, the more I hurt. "
7 " No one ever tells you that: that there’s no method. Writing’s a lawless place. "
― Naomi Wood
8 " No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief. "
9 " Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore. "
10 " Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye. "
11 " Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live. "
12 " Don't worry," she says. "Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald. "
13 " Marriage would wreck us. Both of us...I'm sorry. It's just not right for me.''Don't you love me?''Of course I love you. But that doesn't mean I want to marry you. "
14 " I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both. "
15 " Sometimes there's this feeling of things being repeated. I put the needle on the same place in the same track and I expect a different tune. "
16 " The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon - as well as all of the short stories that writers studied for the inner trick of them. But there was no trickery: only the plain words put there as if they had always been there - like pebbles cooled in a river. "
17 " I am not a woman apt to be left. "
18 " He loved her but he could not live anymore. "
19 " Ah yes, she has forgotten that success should come effortlessly or not at all. It’s always got to be playtime. Cocktail hour. As if life were always a mooning adolescence or always blindingly fun. Hard work was for other people. "
20 " What a pull he has! What a magnetism! Women jump off balconies and follow him into wars. Women turn their eyes from an affair, because a marriage of three is better than a woman alone. "
