"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
— Misquotations
January 1, 1970
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This six-word piece of flash fiction was only attributed to Ernest Hemingway decades after he died. The earliest reference to a similar phrase, in a nonfiction work (a newspaper reporting the death of a young child in 1910), notes: "Baby's handmade trousers and baby's bed for sale. Never been used."
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This six-word piece of flash fiction was only attributed to Ernest Hemingway decades after he died. The earliest reference to a similar phrase, in a nonfiction work (a newspaper reporting the death of a young child in 1910), notes: "Baby's handmade trousers and baby's bed for sale. Never been used."