Ernest Hemingway's Quotes

*A clean, well-lighted place
~"...where the tables were all empty except where the old man sat in the shadows, of the leaves of the tree that moved slightly in the wind." - Narrator
~"You should have killed yourself last week." - Young waiter
~"You have youth, confidence, and a job." - Older waiter

*A day's wait
~"You don't have to stay in here with me if it bothers you." - the boy
~"People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two." - the boy's mother
~"Poor Schatz, it's like miles and kilometers." - the boy's mother

*Hills like white elephants
~"And you think then we will be alright and happy." - the girl
~"If you don't want to you don't have to. I wouldn't have you do it if you didn't want to. But I know it is perfectly simple." - the man
~"They look like white elephants." -the girl

*The short happy life of Francis Macomber
~"It's not pleasant to have your wife see you do something like that." - Macomber
~"In the neck if you can make it. Shoot for bone. Break him down." - Wilson
~"Well, you are a coward." - Margot
~"Why didn't you poison him? That's what they do in England." - Wilson
~"Oh please stop, please, please stop." - Margot

--Bradlea Beard, Sean Bitz, Reid Firestone, & Nick Angell