“Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?”
“Yes. I want to ruin you.”
“Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.
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“You aren’t very hard to corrupt and you’re an awful lot of fun to corrupt.”— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden.
“He’s so damned nice and he’s so awful. He’s my sort of thing.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast