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“Down below there were grassy plains and clear streams, and then we crossed a stream and went through a gloomy little village,”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Shukhov still had quite a bit of time to do—a winter, a summer, another winter, another summer—but all the same, those carpets preyed on his mind.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“I told him only three. It was really only two, but I did not want to explain after I had made the mistake.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Hemingway loved fishing from the time he was old enough to use a rod. In Paris, he was an ocean and more away from his home waters in Michigan. The separation intensified the writing. While he worked on the story, he kept a map of northern Michigan posted in his apartment, with blue marks for significant locations. In succeeding drafts, he stripped the story down to one disturbed person moving through a dreamlike, almost hallucinatory landscape of distorted reality.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition