We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
In plain words
Even grown-up experts are still learning. Nobody ever fully finishes learning a craft.
Where these words come from
- 80% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Wikiquote Sourced section, citing New York Journal-American, July 11, 1961 — days after Hemingway's death, likely drawn from an earlier interview. Not flagged in Disputed/Misattributed.
- New York Journal-American (newspaper)
- 1961 · New York · talking about writing, and how there's always more of the craft left to learn
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