Death in the Afternoon

by Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist

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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

Death in the Afternoon
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Death in the Afternoon
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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Ernest Hemingway

 

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