No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway)

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

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