Carl Van Doren Quotes

#1. IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#2. A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

Anuj

#3. The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#4. In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#5. The future, vague and sad, did not frighten me half as much as knowing that it was not carved in stone.

Jincy Willett

#6. The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#7. Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#8. Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

Justin Trudeau

#9. The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

Robert Reich

#10. It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#11. Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#12. Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

Carl Van Doren

#13. A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

Joan D. Chittister

#14. The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#15. Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#16. Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#17. Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#18. Indeed, all forms of human folly and beastiality touch a very symphathetic chord within our breasts!

J.D. Salinger

#19. The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#20. The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Carl Clinton Van Doren