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The Torrents of Spring

An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth century First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a

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“But she might hold him. That was all that mattered now. To hold him. To hold him. Not to let him go. Make him stay.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimacy, Desire, Love, Closeness, Staying

“It was no use now. It was no use trying to capture what had gone. What had fled.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

Tagged: Regrets, Leaving

“Yogi Johnson stood looking out of the window of a big pump-factory in Michigan. Spring would soon be here. Could it be that what this writing fellow Hutchinson had said, 'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?' would be true again this year? Yogi Johnson wondered.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“It is very hard to write this way, beginning things backward, and the author hopes the reader will realize this and not grudge this little word of explanation. I know I would be very glad to read anything the reader ever wrote, and I hope the reader will make the same sort of allowances. If any of t…”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Red Dog smiled. 'I would like you to meet my friends Mr Sitting Bull, Mr Poisoned Buffalo, and Chief Running Skunk-Backwards.' 'Sitting Bull's a name I know,' Yogi remarked, shaking hands. 'Oh, I'm not one of those Sitting Bulls,' Mr Sitting Bull said.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com