People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have beco…

Ernest Hemingway
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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). Conversations with Ernest Hemingway, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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