“In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.”

— Ernest Hemingway, book True at First Light

Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 10

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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