Sublime

Hemingway wrote about the first year of their friendship in A Moveable Feast, his reminiscences of his early days as a writer in Paris,

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

said his goal was to “live like a pauper, but with plenty of money.” The artist’s name was Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

“It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar. It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young women of extraordinary profundity. She had a theory that one should be

De quelque façon qu’on le prît, nous étions toujours pauvres et je faisais encore de petites économies en prétendant, par exemple, que j’étais invité à déjeuner, pour me promener pendant deux heures au Luxembourg et décrire, au retour, mon merveilleux déjeuner à ma femme. Quand vous avez vingt-cinq ans et que vous appartenez naturellement à la caté

He believed no “real lady” would ever drink beer or use Worcestershire sauce.