Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy c…

Ernest Hemingway
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.1087, Simon and Schuster
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