There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated …

Ernest Hemingway
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2008). The Good Life According to Hemingway, Ecco
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