“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”

—  Ernest Hemingway, book For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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