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“Such a style,so diversified and variegated! It is like the face of a country; it is like a New England landscape, with farmhouses and villages, and cultivated spots, and belts of forests and blueberry swamps round about, with the fragrance of shad-blossoms and violets on certain winds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I started out very quiet and I beat Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat de Maupassant. Ive fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobodys going to get me in any ring with Tolstoy unless Im crazy or I keep getting better.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
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