There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
(Letter to Bernard Berenson, 1952)
Ernest Hemingway
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Courage is grace under pressure. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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