Quotes About Perspective

As he had originally planned to do, Hemingway took the external details of the story and presented them from the point of view of the fisherman. He thus made it possible for the reader to participate imaginatively in the story. That effect was always Hemingway's primary aim as a writer.

Pobre todo el mundo —dijo Hadley—. Ricos los gatos que no tienen dinero.

Sad nije vrijeme da razmišljaš o onome što ti fali. Radije razmišljaj o tome šta možeš s onim što imaš.

Sre?a je nešto što dolazi u raznim oblicima i tko je uop?e može prepoznati? Ja bih je ipak uzeo u svakom obliku i platio koliko traže.

It is not basically a question of the size in repose, I said. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.

I suppose it is just the loss of the immortality, he thought. Well, in a way that is quite a lot to lose.

The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. The battery fired twice and the air came each time like a blow and shook the window and made the front of my pajamas flap. I could see the guns but they were evidently firing directly over us. It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger.

Ä°yiyim. Git sen. Ben biraz yataca??m. ÖÄŸleye doÄŸru kalkar?m. Ama Mr. Turner öÄŸle vakti William Campbell'in odas?na geldiÄŸinde William Campbell uyuyordu, Mr Turner da hayatta nelerin deÄŸerli olduÄŸunu bildiÄŸi için onu uyand?rmad?.

Por entonces, ya había descubierto que todo, lo bueno y lo malo, deja un vacío cuando se interrumpe. Pero si se trata de algo malo, el vacío acaba llenándose por sí solo. Mientras que el vacío de algo bueno solo puede llenarse descubriendo algo mejor.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and only could be hurt truly by what happened to others. He believed this, wrongly of course since he did not know then how one's capacities can change, nor how the other could change, and it was a comfortable belief.

She did not like to hear the really bad nor tragic things, but no one does, and having seen them I did not care to talk about them unless she wanted to know how the world was going. She wanted to know the gay part of how the world was going; never the real, never the bad.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were nor how it was changed nor with what difficulties nor what ease it could be reached. It was always worth it and we received a return for whatever we brought to it.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

Why did you do it? — I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do we have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?

And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love." "Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again. "I don't mean fun that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling." "No," she said. "I think it's hell on earth." "It's good to see each other." "No. I don't think it is." "Don't you want to?" "I have to.

Sus ojos podían continuar mirando y mirando cuando todos los demás ojos hubiesen dejado de mirar.

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

I drink to make people more interesting, Ernest Hemingway.

As I lay on the bed I could see the big mirror on the other side of the room but could not see what it reflected.

I know how you feel, Dave, Andrew said when he brought the Coke. Nobody knows how I feel, David said.

Then several women had put themselves out to be nice to him, and his horizons had all shifted.

And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I

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