Modernist_Quotes_(Period_3)

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=ESSAY QUOTES!!! = = = == == = = = Quotes = Loss Hope Sexuality Aficion Identity Social Isolation Escapism Dissolution Morality Faith Gender Roles Light vs. Dark



"Good night, Jake. Good night, darling. I won't see you again." (Hemingway 71)

""I don't believe she would marry anybody she didn't love." "Well," I said. "She's done it twice."" (Hemingway 47.) "don't be morbid," Jordan said. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." (Fitzgerald 125) starts



"I swam out, trying to swim through the rollers, but having to dive sometimes. THen in the quiet water I turned and floated. Floating I saw inly the sky, and felt the drop and lift of the swells. I swam back to the surf and coasted in, face down, on a big roller, then turned and swar, trying to keep in the trough and not have a wave break over me. It made me tired, swimming in the trough, and I turned and swam out to the raft. The water was bouyant and cold. If felt as though you could never sink" (Hemingway 241)

"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion…" (Fitzgerald 92)



"... I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot." (Hemingway 121.)



//"//Very nice," I said. "About twenty-six arrobas. Very short horns. Haven't you seen them?" "Oh, yes," said Romero. "They won't way twenty-six arrobas," said the critic. "No," said Romero. "They've got bananas for horns," the critic said. (Hemingway 179)

"Aficion means passion. An aficianado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights. All the good bull-fighters stayed at Montoya's hotel; that is, those with aficion stayed there." (Hemingway 136) 



"... she kept an eye on the people of the pesage, and she took great pride in telling me which of my guests were well brought up, which were of good family, who were sportsmen,... The only trouble was that people who did not fall into any of those three categories were very liable to be told there was no one home," (Hemingway 60) "I'm thirty-four you know. I'm not going to be one of those bitches that ruins children." (Hemingway 247) ""I can't help it. I'm a goner now, anyway. Don't you see the difference?" "No." "I've got to do something. I've got to do something I really want to do. I've lost my self-respect." (Hemingway, p187)

Social Isolation


"He calls her Circe," Mike said. "He claims she turns men into swine. Damn good. I wish I were one of these literary chaps." (Hemingway 148)

"'Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.'...'Yes,' I said. 'Isn't it pretty to think so?'" (Hemingway 251).

"I'm going to visit friends. Ever visit friends that didnt want you?" (Hemingway 56)



It was baking hot in the square when we came out after lunch with our bags and the rod-case to go to Burguete. People were on top of the bus, and others were climbing up a ladder. Bill went up and Robert sat beside Bill to save a place for me, and I went back in the hotel to get a couple of bottles of wine to take with us. (Hemingway 109)

"...I sat against the trunk of two of the trees that grew together, and read. The book was something by A.E.W. Mason, and I was reading a wonderful story about a man who had been frozen in the Alps, and then fallen into a glacier and disappeared, and his bride was going to wait twenty-four years exactly for his body to come out on hte moraine, while her true love waited too, and they were still waiting when Bill came up" (Hemingway 124).



"You don't remember anything about a date wth me at the Crillon? No, Did we have one? I must have been blind. You Were quite drunk, my dear," (Hemingway 61.) "Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working." (Hemingway 120)

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"Tell them that bulls have no balls," Mike shouted. He was drunk. (Hemingway 179)

'What?' 'Everything. Please say you forgive me, Jake.' 'Sure,' I said. 'It's all right.'" (Hemingway 198).

"That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement" (Hemingway 152)

"I'm damned bad for the religious atmosphere," Brett said. "I've the wrong type of face. (Hemingway 212)

"Never does me any good.I've never gotten anything I've prayed for. Have you?" "Oh, yes." (Hemingway 213)

"...and as all the time I was kneeling with my forehead on the wood in front of me, and was thinking of myself as praying, I was a little ashamed, and I regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time" (Hemingway 103)

"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see." (Fitzgerald 117)

"If the girl i came with asks for me, will you give her this?" "If she goes out with one of those gentlemen, will you save this for me?" (Hemingway, p31)



"Oh yes. they ragged him about me at the cafe, I guess. He wanted me to grow my hair out. Me, with long hair. I'd look like hell"..."he said it would make me more womanly." (Hemingway 246)

"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Hemingway 42)

"We sat close against each other. I was very hot and bright, and the houses looked sharply white." (Hemingway 251)