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Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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Ernest Hemingway is saying that he approaches language with a fresh perspective, noticing details and meanings that others might overlook. This way of seeing words keeps his experience of life vivid and original, as if every expression is new and full of discovery.

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