I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2…

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2008). The Good Life According to Hemingway, Ecco
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2002). For Whom the Bell Tolls, p.408, Simon and Schuster
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actuall … ▶
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2015). Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.16, Melville House
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ✨ Green Hills of Africa ch. 1 (1935)
All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2008). The Good Life According to Hemingway, Ecco

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