You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is - but if you say so yourself you feel like a shit. (Ernest Hemingway)

You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is any good you yourself know about how good it is - but if you say so yourself you feel like a shit.

Ernest Hemingway

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