Il m’avait raconté à La Closerie des Lilas comment il écrivait des nouvelles qu’il croyait bonnes, et qui l’étaient effectivement, pour le Post, et comment ensuite il les modifiait avant de les soumettre à des magazines, sachant exactement par quels trucs transformer ses nouvelles en textes publiables dans tel ou tel périodique. J’avais été scandal

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I told Ernest how moved I was reading his loving tribute to Hadley in the final chapter he had given me. I said, “No man has ever loved a woman more or written about that love so tenderly. I only wish that one day I would meet a woman I would love like that.” “Hadley and I were lucky. The stars were perfectly aligned for us. Hadley believed in me a

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But when I approached them at the Dôme with inscribed copies of the newly minted The Sun Also Rises they turned on me. Pat called me Judas and said they didn’t want my stinking book. I said, ‘What’s eating you? It’s only about our Pamplona trip. What’s wrong with that?’ ‘What’s wrong,’ he said, ‘is the whole world now sees me as a pathetic drunk wh

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