“Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions.”

— Ernest Hemingway , book True at First Light

Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 12

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