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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it — don't cheat with it.” —Ernest Hemingway, died on this day, 1961

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A related bit of advice from him about writing is actually one of the only writing maxims I’ve bothered to internalize: “write clear and hard about what hurts.”

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