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Mrs. Hemingway
Naomi Wood
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.”
“Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live.”
“Don't worry," she says. "Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald.”
“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”
“Sometimes there's this feeling of things being repeated. I put the needle on the same place in the same track and I expect a different tune.”
“I want to be a good man, a good writer." "Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.”
“The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon - as well as all of the short stories that writers studied for the inner trick of them. But there was no trickery: only the plain words put there as if they had always been there - like pebbles cooled in a river.”
“Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.”
“What's happening to me? he might have thought. What am I doing down here in the black?”
“What a pull he has! What a magnetism! Women jump off balconies and follow him into wars. Women turn their eyes from an affair, because a marriage of three is better than a woman alone.”
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