. American novelist short story writer essayist and poet
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Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. Go to Quote / Comment
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political... Go to Quote / Comment
For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, it is one of t... Go to Quote / Comment
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. Go to Quote / Comment
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. Go to Quote / Comment