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Quotes from A Letter from Cuba — Ernest Hemingway

1899–1961 United States

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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.

A Letter from Cuba (1934)

Personal columnists ... are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him.

A Letter from Cuba (1934)

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