Death in the Afternoon

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“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or after; when having been devout, then cynical, they become devout again by cynicism.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“The only place where you could see life and death, i.e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

“There is no FRIEND as LOYAL as a BOOK!”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon