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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
Ernest HemingwayAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: July 21, 1899
- Died: July 2, 1961
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