"Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder…" — Carl Clinton Van Doren
"Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to."
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12 Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course…
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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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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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