Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes

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

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Men, Sheep, Race

  "Building A Speech". Book by Sheldon Metcalfe, 1990.

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• 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

  World Government, Law, Way

  "The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States". Book by Carl Clinton Van Doren, 1948.

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• 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

  Historical, Details, Teach

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

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Running, Long, Firsts

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• Sí, es difícil escribir. Pero es más difícil no hacerlo.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Writing, Harder, Hard

  "Writing with Authors Kids Love: Writing Exercises by Authors of Children's Literature". Book by Kathryn L. Johnson, 1998.

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• 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

  Uncles, Years, Cabins

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• 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

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• 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

  Discovery, Two, Broken

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• Aunque en 1851 los relatos de aventuras empezaban a parecer anticuados, habían prestado un gran servicio al curso de la literatura: habían eliminado el estigma, en su mayor parte, de la palabra novela.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Travel, Adventure, Literature

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• 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

  Literature, Variables, Speech

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