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Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon Quotes: I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
         

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.


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I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
         



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