“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

Letter (9 April 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”

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