Margot was too beautiful for Macomber .. Ernest Hemingway

Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.

Ernest Hemingway

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American

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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

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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.

They are strong, David said. But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.

THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless, he said. That's how you know when it starts.

You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity.

In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

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