Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? ✨ Ernest H…

Ernest Hemingway
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2016). The Old Man and the Sea, p.6, Hamilton Books
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-196 … ▶

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