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Quotes from The Dangerous Summer — Ernest Hemingway

1899–1961 United States

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Like all truly brave people Antonio is light-hearted and likes to joke and make fun of serious things.

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

[W]hen he came out of the anaesthetic the first thing he said was, 'What a man Ernesto would be if he could only write.'

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

We had spoken about death without being morbid about it and I had told Antonio what I thought about it which is worthless since none of us knows anything about it.

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

The faces that were young once were old as mine but everyone remembered how we were. The eyes had not changed and nobody was fat. No mouths were bitter no matter what the eyes had seen. Bitter lines around the mouth are the first sign of defeat. Nobody was defeated.

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

They say that if you can stay away from bullfighting for a year you can stay away from it forever. That is not true but it has some truth in it and, except for fights in Mexico, I had been away for fourteen years. A lot of that time though was like being in jail except that I was locked out; not locked in.

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

Luis Miguel had the pride of the devil and a feeling of absolute superiority that was justified in many things. He had said so long that he was the best that he really believed it. He had to believe it to go on. It was not just something he believed. It was his belief.

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Hemingway (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.