I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have ne…

Ernest Hemingway
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). For Whom the Bell Tolls, p.240, Simon and Schuster
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). For Whom the Bell Tolls, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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