“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable.”

— Ernest Hemingway, book Islands in the Stream

Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 8
Islands in the Stream (1970)

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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