"Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making ..." - Ernest Hemingway

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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon

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