Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is ove…

Ernest Hemingway
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2002). Death in the Afternoon, p.153, Simon and Schuster
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