He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had…

Ernest Hemingway
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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). For Whom the Bell Tolls, p.254, Simon and Schuster
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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). For Whom the Bell Tolls, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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