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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.
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