[b]Ernest Hemingway
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.[/b]
It is after all a man’s world. Well, not counting all the parts that aren’t.
So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
Well, not counting all the other ways.
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Yes, every once in a while.
Do you know that in abou thirty- five more years we’ll be dead?
What the hell, Robert, I said. What the hell.
I’m serious.
It’s one thig I don’t worry about, I said.
You ought to.
I’ve had plenty to worry about one time or other. I’m through worrying.
Well, I want to go to South America.
Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
But you’ve never been to South America.
South America hell! If you went there the way you feel now it would be exactly the same. This is a good town. Why don’t you start living your life in Paris?
Trust me: It’s exactly the same in Baltimore.
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
That’s how it works alright.
War is not won by victory.
That sounds about right. Or, sure, maybe not.
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
For example, at the impeachment hearings.