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TIL Ernest Hemingway sold the book "To Have and Have Not" rights to the Hughes Tool Company,Howard Hawks bought the book rights,then sold them to Warner Bros.Hawks made ten times more money selling the rights than Hemingway did.After hearing it,Hemingway refused to speak to Hawks for "three months".

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