God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. (Ernest Hemingway)

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

Ernest Hemingway

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