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Carl Clinton Van Doren has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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:…
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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 down before…
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly…
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died…
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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 teach readers…
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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 of new…
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above…
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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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I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get…
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died…
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that…
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might…
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I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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