“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”

Nick Adams of "Fathers and Sons" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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