“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

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This reads as a sharply skeptical view of human company, but also as an admission that people are what shape our happiness most. The line can be taken to mean that some people diminish a good day, while a rare few restore it with the same ease and freshness that spring brings. It lands in any moment when one person's presence changes the whole mood.

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About Ernest Hemingway

American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His work belongs to the 20th century, and he is widely known for a spare, understated style that shaped later writers. He has 257 quotes on the site. He wrote seven novels, six short-story collections, and two works of nonfiction, several of which became classics of American literature. He was also known for an adventurous public image and a blunt, outspoken manner, and he received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Books by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

A short novel, quick to read.

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