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Was it hemingway or fitzgerald who wrote of going bankrupt: slowly at first, then all at once?

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i remember reading it in a short story, and it's told as a joke, "How did you go bankrupt?" "Slowly at first, and then all at once."

i just can't remember where it came from... looking for author and story/book.

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  1. It was Ernest Hemingway.


  2. "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways, gradually and then suddenly"

    -Ernest Hemingway, from The Sun also Rises.

    gotta love that quote :D

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