The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. β¨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades, p.163, Simon and Schuster
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