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" That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. "
Ernest Hemingway
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" A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. "
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