The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. (Ernest Hemingway)

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write.

Ernest Hemingway

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