I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic thi…

Ernest Hemingway
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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.457, Simon and Schuster
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