Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? …

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. ✨ Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. ✨ Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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