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A review by graciegrace1178
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
4.0
Do you have writer's block? Do you want to feel really horrible about it? Boy, is this the read for you!!
Maybe if I read this in a different mindset it'll get 5 stars. 4 for now tho. 4.02 ish. Have to turn this over in my mind a little more before I can produce a review. Hm hm hm hm hm.
QUOTES
"But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all."
"We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies. He had sold vitality, in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money. He had found that out but he would never write that, now, either. No, he would not write that, although it was well worth writing."
"He had never written any of that because, at first, he never wanted to hurt any one and then it seemed as though there was enough to write without it. But he had always thought that he
would write it finally. There was so much to write. He had seen the world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how the people were at different times. He had been in it and he had watched
it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would."
"So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear. Well, there would be no more quarrelling. He could promise that."
"Then he’d started to cry. That was one story he had saved to write. He knew at least twenty good stories from out there and he had never written one. Why?"
"I’m getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.
'It’s a bore,' he said out loud.
'What is, my dear?'
'Anything you do too bloody long.'"
"'You know the only thing I’ve never lost is curiosity,' he said to her."
Maybe if I read this in a different mindset it'll get 5 stars. 4 for now tho. 4.02 ish. Have to turn this over in my mind a little more before I can produce a review. Hm hm hm hm hm.
QUOTES
"But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all."
"We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies. He had sold vitality, in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money. He had found that out but he would never write that, now, either. No, he would not write that, although it was well worth writing."
"He had never written any of that because, at first, he never wanted to hurt any one and then it seemed as though there was enough to write without it. But he had always thought that he
would write it finally. There was so much to write. He had seen the world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how the people were at different times. He had been in it and he had watched
it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would."
"So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear. Well, there would be no more quarrelling. He could promise that."
"Then he’d started to cry. That was one story he had saved to write. He knew at least twenty good stories from out there and he had never written one. Why?"
"I’m getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.
'It’s a bore,' he said out loud.
'What is, my dear?'
'Anything you do too bloody long.'"
"'You know the only thing I’ve never lost is curiosity,' he said to her."