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The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises, a 1926 novel by American Ernest Hemingway, portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. However, Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work", and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print.


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“Listen Jake… don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you are not taking advantage of it?”

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Robert Cohn to Jake Barnes, in Book 1, Ch. 2
The Sun Also Rises (1926)

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“I am always in love.”

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“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

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Variant: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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“Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.”

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“You'll lose it, if you talk about it”

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“Isn't it pretty to think so.”

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“He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.”

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