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Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

— Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa (1935)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Sentence in bold quoted by Ralph Ellison in the opening paragraph of his autobiographical essay "Hidden Name and Complex Fate" (1964).

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