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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
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As quoted in Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Co. (1974) by James Mellow

 

Ernest Hemingway

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