I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to …

Ernest Hemingway
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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead. ✨ Selected Letters, 1917-1961.
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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead. ✨ Selected Letters, 1917-1961.

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