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“Hemingway shot himself yesterday morning. There was a great man. . . . The most important thing he did for me was to legitimize manly courage, a quality that I had heard, until I came on his work, extolled by Scoutmasters and others who made it seem a fraud. He put down an immense vision of love and friendship, swallows and the sound of rain. There was never, in my time, anyone to compare with him.”--John Cheever, in journals published in the New Yorker