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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

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Important Quotations Explained

1. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.


2. [Cohn:] “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
[Jake:] “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”


3. “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”


4. [Jake:] “Couldn’t we live together, Brett? Couldn’t we just live together?”
[Brett:] “I don’t think so. I’d just tromper you with everybody.”


5. “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?”