Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constructed for himself, according to his needs and desires, something that had little relation to the reality of the continent,
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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