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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Or dont you like to write letters. I do because its such a swell w

Or dont you like to write letters. I do because its such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel youve done something. – Ernest Hemingway

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I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t]. I try to put the [$h¡t] in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
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