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" There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. "

Ernest Hemingway

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" Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. "

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