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Quotes from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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1 And in the town we have beautiful English girls.
2 The town was very nice and our house was very fine.
3 There had been a little town but it was all rubble.
4 When I came back to the front we still lived in that town.
5 The forest of oak trees on the mountain beyond the town was gone.
6 We walked along together through the town and I chewed the coffee.
7 "One of those shot by the carabinieri is from my town," Passini said.
8 At Capracotta, he had told me, there were trout in the stream below the town.
9 That day I visited the posts in the mountains and was back in town late in the afternoon.
10 It was hot walking through the town but the sun was starting to go down and it was very pleasant.
11 I saw the town with the hill and the old castle above it in a cup in the hills with the mountains beyond, brown mountains with a little green on their slopes.
12 In the town there were more guns, there were some new hospitals, you met British men and sometimes women, on the street, and a few more houses had been hit by shell fire.
13 We were supposed to wear steel helmets even in Gorizia but they were uncomfortable and too bloody theatrical in a town where the civilian inhabitants had not been evacuated.
14 The forest had been green in the summer when we had come into the town but now there were the stumps and the broken trunks and the ground torn up, and one day at the end of the fall when I was out where the oak forest had been I saw a cloud coming over the mountain.
15 I went along the narrow road down toward the river, left the car at the dressing station under the hill, crossed the pontoon bridge, which was protected by a shoulder of the mountain, and went through the trenches in the smashed-down town and along the edge of the slope.
16 Later, below in the town, I watched the snow falling, looking out of the window of the bawdy house, the house for officers, where I sat with a friend and two glasses drinking a bottle of Asti, and, looking out at the snow falling slowly and heavily, we knew it was all over for that year.
17 The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way.
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