"‘Yes, yes, Hemingway,’ she said. ‘But you were living in a milieu of criminals and perverts.’ I did not want to argue that, although I thought that I had lived in a world as it was and there were all kinds of people in it and I tried to understand them, although some of them I could not like and some I still hated."
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast [p.12].
