“They say that if you can stay away from bullfighting for a year you can stay away from it forever. That is not true but it has some truth in it and, except for fights in Mexico, I had been away for fourteen years. A lot of that time though was like being in jail except that I was locked out; not locked in.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 1

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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