Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

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  Ernest Hemingway
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  • Abuse