I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-…

Ernest Hemingway
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2015). Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.27, Melville House
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2015). Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.27, Melville House

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