I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, th…

Ernest Hemingway
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961, p.515, Simon and Schuster
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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