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But when I approached them at the Dôme with inscribed copies of the newly minted The Sun Also Rises they turned on me. Pat called me Judas and said they didn’t want my stinking book. I said, ‘What’s eating you? It’s only about our Pamplona trip. What’s wrong with that?’ ‘What’s wrong,’ he said, ‘is the whole world now sees me as a pathetic drunk wh
... See moreA. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
Mary responded well to the balmy climate, however, and the Flaglers would return to Jacksonville again, though she was hesitant to stay long once her workaholic husband had returned to the fray in New York City. In spite of the forays to Florida and the best of medical care, which Flagler’s wealth provided, Mary’s condition continued to deteriorate
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

the wife of an arriviste who had not arrived.
F. Scott Fitzgerald • Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald UK
I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
Bruce is not the kind of man I usually go out with. He’s married, not tall, when I reach him he pays for my diet Coke with the change he kept from me for parking.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Informers (Vintage Contemporaries)
So, as in Death in the Afternoon, he writes beautifully, and then immediately turns it off with a flippant comment, or a deliberate obscenity.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
“I first called the book Fiesta, only later on The Sun Also Rises.