Nick Adams Quotes in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

Nick Adams: Look, what can you tell in four days?

George: I'll tell ya what I can tell. I can tell ya that three times a day I get hungry and every twenty-four hours I get an irresistible urge to go to sleep in a bed. I don't wanna beg and I don't wanna steal. I don't want a cop tellin' me I'm a vagrant and runnin' me outta town. I'm sorry to desert you, but I'm not cut out for this kind of a life.

Nick Adams: Listen, Dad, you're always coming to me about Mother. Why don't you go to her for me and explain to her that I'm not a boy anymore.

Nick Adams: [After the roadwork is stopped] That a mile?

Bugs: Sure. We do a 100 yards to a mile.

Ad Francis, 'The Battler': Uh, I'm crazy...Ever been crazy, kid?

Nick Adams: No. How's it get ya?

Ad Francis, 'The Battler': [Confused and disoriented] I don't kn...I don't know. See, ya...ya know...see, when you got it, then...that means ya don't know about it...

Nick Adams: You've already had twelve drinks. How can you be thirsty?

Billy Campbell: [Clasping the side of Nick's face] It's an emotional thirst, not a physical one. You wouldn't understand.

Nick Adams: Ma, the difference between you and me grows fifty miles each day.