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by throwaway13qf85 4422 days ago
William Faulkner once criticised Ernest Hemingway by saying that he "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary."

Hemingway responded by saying, "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."