"It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only form habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth."

Denkt Harry, der am Bein verletzt und ohne medizinische Versorgung mitten in Afrika herumliegt und formal auf Rettung wartet, tatsächlich aber die ständig herumstreunende Hyäne beobachtet, die ihm täglich näher kommt.

Ernest Hemingway, »The Snows of Kilimanjaro«, in: ders.: Selected Stories, Составителъ, автор прдисловия и литературоведческих справок И. Л. Фцикельщейи (oder so ähnlich), Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1971, S. 272-302, hier: S. 281.