“The bulls are my best friends."
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.”

—  Ernest Hemingway, book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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