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Ernest Hemingway

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sac

Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway is saying that he cut down on swear words so much in his writing that he worries the book might lack strong language altogether. He suggests accepting the book as it is, full of profanity, and hopes the next one will either have fewer swear words or be more sacred in tone.

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