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" Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. "
Ernest Hemingway
Time
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You
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" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "
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" I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. "
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