[b]Ernest Hemingway
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.[/b]
On the other hand, here in particular, one size doesn’t fit all.
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else’s eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
I know that look. Unless, of course, I don’t.
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
On the other hand, I know it doesn’t exist because I have it.
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Let’s file this one [clearly] under “easier said than done”.
Well, most of it.
It’s harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
Works the same when you read in third person. You know, if that’s possible.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.
Of course in the Army, they ordered me to be brave. And I had the medals to prove it.