Excerpt taken from Ernest Hemmingway’s, A Moveable Feast

“Yes, yes, Hemingway,” she said. “But you were living in a milieu of criminals and perverts.”<br><br>

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.