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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being…

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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:…
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly…
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died…
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers…
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new…
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above…
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers…

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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered. — Madeleine Albright
You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that… — Gerald Durrell
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. — Oscar Wilde
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is… — Tom Noonan
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker… — Barbara Kingsolver
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats… — Tony La Russa
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of… — Jimmy Cliff
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. — George Eliot
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to… — Wallace Shawn
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how… — Bart D. Ehrman
I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly. — Yotam Ottolenghi

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