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I checked this out as I heard the phrase before. "Gradually, then suddenly" seems to be originally a quote from Hemmingway in The Sun Also Rises about bankrupcy
by legulere 9y ago
I checked this out as I heard the phrase before.
"Gradually, then suddenly" seems to be originally a quote from Hemmingway in The Sun Also Rises about bankrupcy:
“How did you go bankrupt?" - "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
It is quoted then in the context of depression in the movie Prozac Nation:
"Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.
- marnett 9y agoHemmingway's The Sun Also Rises is an amazing novel for anyone who has not read it. Some truly amazing characters and social dynamics are laid out in that book. I finished it in one sitting when I read it a few years back, it was a page-turner in a weird, unmatched kind of way.
- trophycase 9y agoInteresting little piece of trivia. I'm on vacation and just finished reading The Sun Also Rises 2 days ago and I'm now reading "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin and just encountered this passage: "They became intimate and friendly by imperceptible degrees, and then by leaps." Which reads very similar to the Hemmingway passage. Maybe he stole it ;)