Not Loving Well

“All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.”

I think that was Hemingway that said that,

And he,

Well he could cut through your soul like a hot knife cutting through a steaming pile of shit—

Bullshit—your bullshit,

To be precise—

With his brutal 

Honesty.

But maybe it wasn't him that said that . . .?

Maybe it was one of those other writers?

I only read Ernest once when I was 18,

And I barely remember

His brutal honesty

Anymore.

But, when one of his quotes

Pops up

It always hurts,

Like a solid body shot does,

And I think that's what he was intending to do to me.

After all,

They say he was a fighter.

. . .

It turns out

That the quote

Is a line in a movie

Spoken by the character Hemingway

In a movie

Written by Woody Allen

About an author in Paris.

How cool.

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