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?”
