Quotation by

Ernest Hemingway

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway suggests that achieving success often happens due to factors that don't reflect the true value or intention behind your work. He believes that popularity tends to come from the least meaningful or lowest-quality parts of what you create, rather than the best.

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