I recently heard Peggy Noonan, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and presidential speechwriter, quote a line from Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises: “Gradually, then suddenly.” She used ...

There’s a line in Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” where a character explains how he went bankrupt: “Two ways,” the character says. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Hemingway wrote that line when he ...