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Who's right?

Jeffrey Overstreet

19 Jun 2010
Filed under: On Books & Writing • Ernest Hemingway • Ned Rorem • Quotable • Writing

So... I stumbled onto these two quotes within a few seconds of one another...

"In order to write about life, first you must live it!"

- Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961), writer, journalist

But then:

  • Ned Rorem, Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Composer


Which is it?

Come on. Time's wasting, and I need to know.

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