"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across— not to just depict life— or criticize it— but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

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About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He is known for works such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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