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.
“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”
Variant: All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
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Book 3, Ch. 19 (the last lines of the novel)
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Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
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“I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.”
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“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
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“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together”
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“I don’t know. There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”
Variant: There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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“How did you go bankrupt?' Bill asked.
'Two ways,' Mike said. 'Gradually and then suddenly.”
Book 2, Ch. 13
Mike's response is often misquoted as "It occurs first very slowly, then all at once."
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Bill Gorton to Jake Barnes, in Book 2, Ch. 12
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“Oh, Jake,' Brett said, 'we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
'Yes,' I said. 'Isn't it pretty to think so?'
Book 3, Ch. 19 (the last lines of the novel)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
