Quotation by Ernest Hemingway

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published in Carlos Baker, Hemingway: the Writer as Artist, ch. 13, third edition (1963)A Farewell to Arms (1929)A Moveable Feast (1964)Bill Gorton to Jake Barnes, in The Sun Also Rises (1926)Carlos Baker, Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (1963)

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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. Esquire (New York, December 1934).

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