Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
Ernest HemingwayA serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest HemingwayAbout morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway