"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun……" — Carl Clinton Van Doren
"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel."
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12 Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken…
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without…
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale…
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when…
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to…
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest…
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject,…
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports…
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More Adventure Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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