. American novelist short story writer essayist and poet
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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke. Go to Quote / Comment
Foemen at morn, but friends at eve— Fame or country least their care:... Go to Quote / Comment
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Go to Quote / Comment
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Go to Quote / Comment
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Go to Quote / Comment