“Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”

Letter (5–6 January 1932); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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