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Hawthorne Quote by Chuck Eddy

“Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.” quote by Chuck Eddy — Download Open image

“Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

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I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

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Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

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I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top.…

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There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to…

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“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”

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My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

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