Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doub…

Ernest Hemingway
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. ✨ Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux, Ernest Hemingway (1995). The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Full-length Play, p.4, Dramatic Publishing
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