"My aim is to put down on paper…" — Ernest Hemingway

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Mon but est de mettre sur papier ce que je vois et ce que je ressens de la meilleure et la plus simple manière

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“When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.”

Ernest Hemingway

“As a writer you should not judge, you should understand.”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”

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