The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enoug…

Ernest Hemingway
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961, p.305, Simon and Schuster
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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