“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

— Ernest Hemingway, book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 11

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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