7 quotations found:

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man,
then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris
is a moveable feast.

Source: A Moveable Feast
Date: 2001

Heros know when to die.
Date: 2001

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is
over.
Date: 2001

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start
and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But
when you can get the damned hurt use it -- don't cheat with it. Be as faithful
to it as a scientist.

Source: Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date: 2001

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch ... It's
sort of what we have instead of God.

Source: Lady Brett Ashely to Jake, The Sun Also Rises, Chp. 26
Date: 2001

But after I had got them out and shut the door and turned off the
light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-bye to a statue. After a
while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the
rain.

Source: A Farewell to Arms; last sentences
Date: 2002

I was always embarrased by the words sacred, glorious, and
sacrifice and the expression in vain. ....I had seen nothing sacred, and the
things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the
stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the
names of places had dignity.

Source: A Farewell to Arms, Chapter 27
Date: 2002