Men Without Women
1927
Fourteen stories of men facing the unbearable silence that follows loss, rejection, or simple absence. Hemingway strips everything away to reveal what hurts beneath the surface: a boxer who can't stop talking to keep the fear at bay, a bullfighter begging for one more chance after injury has made him obsolete, two people at a train station slowly realizing they've already said everything that matters. The title is the point. These men exist in a world women have left, or never occupied, or threaten to abandon and the prose itself becomes a kind of masculine restraint, tight and controlled on top of something roiling. "The Killers" builds dread from almost nothing. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a conversation about something never named. "Fifty Grand" is a fight where the stakes are barely understood. This is Hemingway at his sparest and most devastating, writing about what men do when there's nothing left to prove and no one left to tell.
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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.””
— Ernest Hemingway
“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?””
— Ernest Hemingway
“You have to emend yourself. A man who doesn't sleep cannot live.””
— Ernest Hemingway
“He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.””
— Ernest Hemingway
“The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.””
— Ernest Hemingway
“Are you married?" "No, but I hope to be." "The more of a fool you are," he said. He seemed very angry. "A man must not marry. "Why, Signor Maggiore?""Don't call me 'Signor Maggiore.'""Why must not a man marry?""He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose."He spoke very angrily and bitterly, and looked straight ahead while he talked. "But why should he necessarily lose it?""He'll lose it.””
— Ernest Hemingway
“İyiyim. Git sen. Ben biraz yatacağım. Öğleye doğru kalkarım."Ama Mr. Turner öğle vakti William Campbell'in odasına geldiğinde William Campbell uyuyordu, Mr Turner da hayatta nelerin değerli olduğunu bildiği için onu uyandırmadı.””
— Ernest Hemingway
“Bana bak, Billy, bir sır vereyim sana. Ne varsa çarşaflarda var, Billy. Kadınlardan uzak dur, atlardan uzak dur, sonra" durdu, " kartallardan uzak dur, Billy. Atları seven atları bulur, kartalları seven kartalları bulur." Durdu, başını çarşafın altına soktu."Gitmem gerekiyor" dedi Uçan Billy Turner."Kadınları seven içkiyi bulur" dedi William Campbell. "Atları seven...””
— Ernest Hemingway
“Geceleyin uyandığında, kulübenin dışında ağaçların arasında esen rüzgârı, gölün kıyıya çarpan dalgalarını duydu, sonra yeniden uyudu. Sabahleyin sert sert esiyordu rüzgâr, dalgalar kıyıya vuruyordu, uzun süre uyanık kaldı, sonra da gönlünün kırılmış olduğunu hatırladı.””
— Ernest Hemingway
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