"After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the ir..." - Ernest Hemingway

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After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

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