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  1. Paula McLain _ Circling the Sun

    We can only go to the limits of ourselves-I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone. - Beryl Markham
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  2. Paula McLain _ The Paris Wife

    And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?"
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  3. Paula McLain _ Love and Ruin

    If that was a real question, there wasn't time for me to answer because a very smartly dressed woman flared over and began talking to him, standing close with her fists on the hips of her slim-cut skirt, blocking him from view. This was Lillian Hellman, I would soon learn. She and Ernest and the others in the room made up the newly formed Contemporary Historians, a corporation bent on funding a documentary film that would help Spain acquire ambulances and other kinds of support. The filmmaker was Dutch, apparently, and already over in Spain with his Norwegian cameraman. Other members of the Historians were John Dos Passos, Archie MacLeish, and Evan Shipman, all writers big enough to cast shadows. The room seemed full of them as I sat in my blue chair, wondering how I might break in.
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