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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (13 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway : Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

 

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