Hemingway’s aim was to convey vividly and exactly moments of exquisite importance and poignancy, experiences that might appropriately be described as “epiphanies.”
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro.”
― Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
― Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.”
― Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
― Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“That afternoon he invited me to his house for an after-school snack and showed me his collection of strange gadgets made from bits of scrap metal, which he kept in his room.”
― The Shadow Of The Wind
― The Shadow Of The Wind
“The sea lifted smooth blue muscles of wave as it stirred in the dawn-light, and the foam of our wake spread gently behind us like a white peacock’s tail, glinting with bubbles.”
― My Family and Other Animals
― My Family and Other Animals
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