"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless."

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About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He is known for works such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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