| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 6902 |
| AUTHOR: | Ernest Hemingway |
| QUOTATION: | Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it—don’t cheat with it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald, quoted by William Safire and Leonard Safir Good Advice Times Books 82 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Literature: Writers & Editors |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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