If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
— Ernest Hemingway Modern

Novelist, journalist

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Death in the Afternoon

Date / Period

1932

Category

Humorous

Source

https://archive.org/details/deathinafternoo00hemi/page/192/mode/2up

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