There are events which are so great that if a writer has...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about invention, events, writers

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway
Quote by Ernest Hemingway about invention, events, writers.
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway 1899 - 1961, american writer and journalist

Was born on: 21 jul 1889.
Died on 02 jul 1961, at 71 years old.
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