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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway
Attribution: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. repr. In Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963). Interview in Paris Review (Flushing, N.Y., Spring 1958).

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