Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Ernest Hemingway
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2016). The Old Man and the Sea, p.2, Hamilton Books
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too? ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2016). The Old Man and the Sea, p.27, Hamilton Books
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.7211, Simon and Schuster
You've such a lovely temperature. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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