# Quote — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

> I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have.

- Author: [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md)
- Book: [The Sun Also Rises](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-also-rises.md)
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> 'You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.'
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> You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés.

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