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Death in the Afternoon

Hemingway's Classic Portrait Of The Pageantry Of Bullfighting. Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here

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Characters

Ernest Hemingway (14)

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it it does not exis…”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eig…”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a life…”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to…”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com