I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to …

Ernest Hemingway
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about. ✨ The Sun Also Rises ch. 14 (1926)
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about. ✨ The Sun Also Rises ch. 14 (1926)

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