Hervey Allen Quotes

#1. Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

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#2. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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#3. Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

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#4. In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

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#5. Religions change; beer and wine remain.

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#6. Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

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#7. Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

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#8. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

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#9. Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

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