Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still work…

Ernest Hemingway
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, p.57, Simon and Schuster
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