“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

— Ernest Hemingway , book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 9

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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