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She heard someone call her name and, turning, was confronted by a woman of late middle age whose most recent appointment with her plastic surgeon had left her with an expression of sheer terror.
“He said the offensive in Flanders was going to the bad. If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half-replaced and half-utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm!”
― The Turn of the Screw (American Classics Edition)
― The Turn of the Screw (American Classics Edition)
“You’re pretty wonderful.” “No I’m not. But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend to you a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success. These were three such doctors.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I would have to tell them not to put ice in the whiskey. Let them bring the ice separately. That way you could tell how much whiskey there was and it would not suddenly be too thin from the soda. I would get a bottle of whiskey and have them bring ice and soda. That was the sensible way. Good whiskey was very pleasant. It was one of the pleasant parts of life.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
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