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Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it – don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist.

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Date Published (if article, journal entry, or letter): 
Monday, May 28, 1934
Letter Written To: 
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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