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Steven Wright. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau. If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. Yogi Berra.
Wise and Intelligent Quotes of American Authors. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou. “Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” – Henry David Thoreau.
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- The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Buy now from Amazon. Author: Oscar Wilde. Year: 1890. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
- The Road. Buy now from Amazon. Author: Cormac McCarthy. Year: 2006. “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” 425. 92.
- In A Free State. Buy now from Amazon. Author: V.S. Naipaul. Year: 1971. "The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves." 375 47 Thanks for voting.
- Anna Karenina. Buy now from Amazon. Author: Leo Tolstoy. Year: 1877. "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it." 341 58 Thanks for voting.
- “I am always in love.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.
- “Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
- “He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach.
- “Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”
America has a great and proud literary tradition. Here's our take on the top 20 American writers of all time, with detailed bios and book lists of each author.
- I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. Dashiell Hammett. Thinking, Literature, Influence.
- All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway. Book, Usa, Literature.
- Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.
- American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
American Literature Quotes - BrainyQuote. American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. Christopher Dawson. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
