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One literary rival said of Ernest Hemingway, “He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used.” Who said that?
- A Gertrude Stein
- B William Faulkner
- C F. Scott Fitzgerald
- D Willa Cather
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According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Hemingway — responding to a paraphrased version of Faulkner’s comments — reportedly replied:
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
