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Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson.  1988.
 
 
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.
 
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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