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21 " How every one he had slept with had only made him miss her more "
― Ernest Hemingway , The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
22 " The madness all over "
23 " The one experience that he had never had he was not going to spoil now. He probably would. You spoiled everything. But perhaps he wouldn't "
24 " No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me. "
25 " She had been married to a man who had never bored her and these people bored her very much "
26 " I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck. "
27 " Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things "
28 " But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all. "
29 " Certi altri posti non erano così buoni, ma forse eravamo noi a non essere così buoni quando eravamo là. "
30 " THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOI am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed. "
31 " For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well "
32 " It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones. "
33 " THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOEverything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes "
34 " THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOI never carry a gun. With my luck, if i carried a gun I would be hanged ten times a year. "
35 " THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIODo you have bad luck with all games?With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth.Truly? -TrulyAnd what is there to do?-Continue, slowly, and wait for luck to change. "
36 " You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity," he said to her."You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known "
37 " THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOIt is necessary to be very strong against something "
38 " It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. "
39 " They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the café and looked at the terrace where the tables were all empty except where the old man sat in the shadow of the leaves of the tree that moved slightly in the wind. A girl and a soldier went by in the street. The street light shone on the brass number on his collar. The girl wore no head covering and hurried beside him. "
40 " I’d like to destroy you a few times in bed, "