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04-24-2013, 01:45 PM
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Sage
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LI SNOWBIRD
this is just a sidebar from the other word sentence posts. Let me point out that this cannot definitely be attributed to the stated author, though he used brevity masterfully.
"Ernest Hemingway was lunching at Luchow’s with a number of writers and claimed that he could write a short story that was only six words long. Of course, the other writers balked. Hemingway told each of them to put ten dollars in the middle of the table; if he was wrong, he said, he’d match it. If he was right, he would keep the entire pot. He quickly wrote six words down on a napkin and passed it around; Papa won the bet. The words were “FOR SALE, BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN.” A beginning, a middle and an end! "
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He schemed, placed bet, then won. 
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