''Interviewer:  "How much rewriting do you do?"''

''Ernest Hemingway:  "I rewrote the ending of '''Farewell to Arms''', the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied."''

''Interviewer:  "Was there some technical problem there?  What was it that stumped you?"''

''Hemingway:  "Getting the words right."''

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