“You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.”

Statement after seeing David O. Selznick's remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957).
Papa Hemingway (1966)

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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