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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about. - Ernest Hemingway
Attribution: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. repr. In By-Line Ernest Hemingway, ed. William White (1967). “Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba,” Esquire (New York, December 1934).

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