"There is only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is fascism... a lie told by bullies. A writer who will not lie cannot live or work under fascism."
— Fascism

January 1, 1970

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Ernest Hemingway, Congress of American Writers address (June 23, 1937) prior to the premiere screening of the Joris Ivens, Ernest Hemingway propaganda film, '; as quoted by Mia Spiro, The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s ed., James Smith, Ch. 13. Fascism and Anti-Fascism.