Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is …

Ernest Hemingway
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.2261, Simon and Schuster
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