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First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) ... read more
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- Thomas Hudson: Add a description of this character.
- Young Tom
- Roger Davis
- Willie
- David
- Henry
- Big Harry
- Andrew
- Mr. Bobby
- Davy
- Eddy
- Captain Frank
- Dave
- Andy
- Peters
- Rupert
- Mr. Joyce
- Joseph
- Gil
- Audrey
- George
- Johnny Goodner
- Papa
- Mario
- Mr. Pascin
- Fred Wilson
- Serafin
- Ignacio
- Ginny
- Anton
- Mary
- Romano
- Mr. De Montfried
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“But learning how to settle down and how to paint with discipline had been hard for him because there had been a time in his life when he had not been disciplined. He had never been truly irresponsible; but he had been undisciplined, selfish, and ruthless. He knew this now, not only because many women had told it to him; but because he had finally discovered it for himself. Then he had resolved that he would be selfish only for his painting, ruthless only for his work, and that he would discipline himself and accept the discipline.”
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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He thought that on the ship he could come to some terms with his sorrow, not knowing, yet, that there are no terms to be made with sorrow. It can be cured by death and it can be blunted or anesthetized by various things. Time is supposed to cure it, too. But if it is cured by anything less than death, the chances are that it was not true sorrow.
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He had trained himself not to quarrel with women anymore and he had learned how not to get married.
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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.
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You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.
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You see Eddy’s happy because he does something well and does it every day.”
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Going away can be final. Walking out the door can be final. Any form of real betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.
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“It is a pride without vanity,” Ara continued. “Failure is its brother and shit is its sister and death is its wife.”
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“I don’t like the end,” Roger said. “I don’t think any of us do, really,” Thomas Hudson said. “But there’s always an end.”
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But he was a bad boy and the others knew it and he knew it. He was just being good while his badness grew inside him.
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First Sentence edit
THE HOUSE was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1970. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The French Lieutenant's Woman, and followed by The Crystal Cave.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ernest Hemingway (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.52
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics › Hemingway, Ernest
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hemingway, Ernest
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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