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The Sun Also Rises By: Ernest Hemingway "Oh, Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together." "Yes. Isn't it pretty to think so?" -Brett and Jake
"I'm not sorry for him. I hate him, myself." "I hate him, too, I hate this damned suffering."
"Tell him bulls have no balls!"
"Oh, go to hell, Cohn, Brett's gone off with the bull-fighter chap. They're on their honeymoon."
"Brett's got a bull-fighter, but her Jew has gone away."
"Eat? Why didn't you say eat? I thought you just wanted me to get up for fun. Eat? Fine. Now you're reasonable." "Oh, go to hell!"
"Poor, very poor. You can't do it. That's all. You don't understand irony. You have no pity. Say something pitiful." "Robert Cohn."
"That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality."
"That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right."
"...all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - `Wait and hope.' "
"Your cowardly heart, trembling at the thought of death, leaped for joy when you heard yourself condemned to a lifetime of shame, for you said to yourself, like all prisoners, 'A prison has a door, but a grave hasn't.' "
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
"Was your misses pleased?" "Several times."
"I think this boy's cheese slid off his cracker"
"I know you're hurtin' and worryin'. I can feel it on you, but you ought to quit on it now. I want it to be over and done with. I do. I'm tired, boss. I'm tired of bein' on the road, lonley as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never havin' me a buddy to be with... to tell me where we's goin' to, comin' from, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people bein' ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world... everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head... all the time. Can you understand?"
"I have no illusions of imortality, but I'll wish for death long before it finds me."
"The only way to reach the top is to get off your bottom."
"Not even a mosquito gets a pat on the back until it starts to do something."
"You'll be surprised what your limits are when you forget you have them."
"Only when all else is lost can you truly find yourself." -Tony Laslie
"The secret to success is to do common things uncommonly well."
"Everything you do is a protrait of yourself. Sign it with excellence."
"Happiness is the journey, not the destination."
"You are responsible for your own happiness."
"When you were born you cried and the world rejoyced. Live your life so that when you die the world will cry and you will rejoyce."
"May the force be with you."
"The problem today is that too many people love things and use people when they should love people and use things."
"Give me your thingy. Not now, we have company."
"You're cool, and I'm not."
"The Batman laser light show at Six Flags was pretty cool." "Not as cool asn the one I saw in Arizona!" "Have you seen the Batman laser light show?" "Yeah, the other one was cooler." "What did the Batman one look like?" "Well, I haven't really seen it."
"Lead me if you can, follow me if you must, but stay the hell out of my way."
"I'm trying to think but nothing happens."
"It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milkbone underwear."
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"No accident was ever planned."
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
"Thoreau said that most men lead lives of quiet desparation... Boys, don't be resigned to that."
"If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is."
"Call Waiting - great if you have two friends."
'Caught In the Flood'
"What is a free gift? Aren't all gifts free?"
"Oops, my brain jst hit a bad sector."
"Some see the glass as half empty. Some see the glass as half full. I see the glass as to big."
"The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life."
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
"Have you ever noticed? Anyone going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."
"Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has it's rainbow."
"As the breeze flows through the shrub, so is my heart calm."
"I understand about indecision
"There's a little bit of something me, in everything in you"
"She knew the crumpled up promise of this broken down man"
"While you were sleeping, I was listening to the radio and wondering what you're dreaming, when it came to mind that I didn't care."
"I wonder how I never got the burn, and if I'm ever gonna learn how lonely people make a life, one strain at a time, and still shine."
"You still want love. Love's ugly, smooth and delicate, but not without affection. No, not alone."
"You figured me out. I'm lost and I'm hopeless, bleeding and broken - though I've never spoken. I come undone - in this mad season."
"I'm so scared that I'll never get put back together."
"One miore day down. Everybody has those days, where one soft, sweet song's just enough to clear my head."
"I think you've got a piece of my heart on your face. It's a shame to lt it waste. How does it taste?"
"It won't be the first - heart that you break"
"There's an awful lot of breathing room, but I can hardly move."
"I think I'm just scared. I think too much."
"Don't think that I can take another empty moment"
"So you sailed away"
"It's one more round of petty conversation. You hold on boy 'cause you won't go down like this? Just roll on over, lay down 'till it's more than you can take."
"Yeah if you're weak can we talk about it. It's getting so damn creepy just nursing this ghost of a chance, the fiction, the romance and the technicolor dreams of black and white people. We are black and white people."
"Rice Krispies Treats: Great for grip. Best when eaten."
"Damn, damn, damn damn, double damn." -Tim Tatum
"Love is a feeling, not a decision. You can't decide who you love, and if you could, it wouldn't be magical."
"There's a double standard, it's a man's world.... We are gods in our own world."
"Skin it... skin that smoke wagon and see what happens."
"Are you gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed?"
"Does this mean that we're not friends anymore? You know Ed, if I thought that you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.
"Are these times contagious? I've never been this bored before. Is this the prize I've waited for?"
"How is it that they can cram more burps into root beer than anything else?" "I think it's psychological, I know I am."
"Rice Krispies Treats: Great for making friends. Best when eaten."
"I could never have you. I knew that before you did. Still I'm the one who's stupid, and there's this burning like there's always been. I've never been so alone, and I've never been so alive."
I kept the right ones out, and let the wrong ones in. I had an angel of mercy to see me thruogh all my sins. There were times in my life, when I was going insane, tryin' to walk through the pain.
When I lost my grip and I hit the floor, I thought I couold leave, but couldn't get out the door. I was so sick and tired of living a lie. I was wishing that I would die. It's amazing, with the blink of an eye you finally see the light.
It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright. It's amazing, and I'm saying a prayer for all of the desperate hearts tonight."
"That one last shot's a permanent vacation. How high can you fly with broken wings?"
"Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you!"
"Could you whisper in my ear, the things you want to feel. I'll give you anything to feel it coming. I wanna wake up where you are. I won't say anything at all. So why don't you slide?"
"I am not my body, I am just the spirit that is driving this meat-puppet."
"I copied these from Mack's wife Carrie. There's a song here I was really..."
"Hold me now, I feel contagious. Am I the only place that you’ve left to go? She cries her life is like some movie, black and white. Dead actors, vacant lies. Over and over and over again, she cries."
"Mister could you lend a hand to help a drowning, starving, soulless man whose eyes are blind and feelings all but numb, whose ears are also deaf and mouth is dumb?"
"She said I would not understand. She left a note and said I'm sorry. I had a bad day again. She spilled her coffee broke her shoelace, smeared the lipstick on her face. Slammed the door and said I'm sorry I had a bad day again. And she swears there's nothing wrong. I hear her playing that same old song. She puts me up and puts me on. I had a bad day again."
"Don't fall away and leave me to myself. Don't fall away and leave love bleeding in my hands, in my hands again. Love lies bleeding."
"From the first day, I envisioned myself with you. It's so hard to wait, but with you it was so easy to do. Somewhere in time, I knew I would find you here. With every passing moment, I see forever so clear. Part of me was lost without you. You are where I found my faith. It feels like love is here to stay... When I look in your eyes, I see a lifetime of dreams come true and I want you to say, that you feel the same way too. With stars in your eyes, tell me. All my tomorrows will wait for you. You're all of my prayers, answered. My one saving grace is you."
"I took my love, and I took it down. I climbed a mountian and I turned around. And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills, 'till the landslide brought it down. Mirror in the shy, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail though the changing ocean tide? Can I handle the seasons of my life? I've been afraid of changing because I built my life around you. Time makes you bolder, even children get older, and I'm getting older too. Yeah, I'm geting older too."
"If shame had a face, I think it would kind of look like mine. If it had a home would it be my eyes. Would you believe me if I said I'm tired of this? Now here we go one more time. I tried to climb your steps. I tried to chase you down. I tried so see how low I could get down to the ground. I tried to earn my way. I tried to change this mind. You better believe I tried to beat this. When will this end? It goes on and on, over and over and over again. Keep spinning around. I know it won't stop until I step down from this for good. I never thought I'd end up end up here. Never thought I'd be standing where I am. I guess I though that it would be easier than this. I gues I was wrong now one more time. This is a sick cycle carousel."
Desparate for changing, starving for truth. Closer to where I started chasing aftr you. I'm falling even more inlove with you. Letting go of all I've held onto. I'm standing here unto you make me move. I'm hanging by a moment here with you. Forgetting all I'm lacking, completely imcomplete. I'll take your invitation, and you take all of me. I'm living for the only thing I know. I'm running and not quite sure where to go. I don't know what I'm diving into. I'm hanging by a moment here with you. There is nothing left to lose. There isnothing left to find. There is nothing in the world that could change my mind. There is nothing else."
"Can't change this feeling. I'm way out of touch. Can't change this meaning, it means too much. Never been this lonely, never felt this good. Can't be the only one misunderstood. I remind myself of somebody else. Feeling like I'm chasing, like I'm facing myself alone. I've got someone else's thoughts in my head and I want some of my own."
"I'm finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't know know really what I am gonna do when I get there. Take a breath and hold on tight. Spin around one more time and gracefully fall back in the arms of grace. I am hanging on every word you say, and even if you don't want to speak tonight, that's alright, alright with me. 'Cause I want nothing more than to sit outside Heaven's door and listen to you breathing"
"It's not fair, it's not even close. You fed me that sun, burned me up inside and watched me choke on everything we did, on everything we lived. Let's see if I can live again. I lied my face off when I said that I would be okay."
I crash... and burn inside my mind. It happens time and time again. I can't explain the way you make me feel. I know... I don't have much to give, but what I have I give to you with all the madness left inside of me."
"Tryin' to not think about you. I'm not a dead man walking with out you. You know I'll be alright. I'm showing signs of life. You left me barely breathing. I've had time for the healing. Now I've opened my eyes. I'm showing signs of life."
"Memories are just where you laid them. Drag the waters, 'till the depths give up their dead. What did you expect to find. Was it something you left behind? Don't you remember anything I said when I said... Don't fall away, and leave me to myself. Don't fall away.. and leave love bleeding in my hands.. In my hands again."
"All our lives get complicated. The search for pleasure's over-rated."
"It's easier not to be wise. We measure these things with our brains. I sank into Eden with you , alone in the church by and by. I'll read to you here, save your eyes. You'll need them, your boat is at sea. The anchor is out, you've been swept away. The greatest of teachers won't hesitate, to leave you there by yourself chained to fate."
"It's easier not to be great. We measure these things with our eyes."
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