Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren - Page 1

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren / Critic
Hard
Harder
Writing
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Carl Clinton Van Doren / Critic
Men
Conformity
Credulity
Race
Sheep
While
Wolves
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Carl Clinton Van Doren / Critic
Running
Firsts
Long
Nowhere
Long Run
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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 / Critic
Law
Way
World Government
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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 / Critic
Affair
Conventional
Georgia
Guy
Law
Love Affair
Plot
Rivers
Strife
Bandit
Deadly
Piece
Regards
Tale
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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 / Critic
Details
Familiar
Historical
Teach
Detail
Entertained
Generally
Idealized
Readers
Remote
Succeeded
Tending
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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 / Critic
Travel
Adventure
Literature
Stigma
Tales
Antiquated
Begun
Rendered
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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 / Critic
Explorers
Followers
Mississippi
Prairie
Reports
Strange
Cooper
Popular
Region
Travellers
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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 / Critic
Borders
Conquest
Cultivation
East
Mississippi
Nearly
Closer
Cooper
Main
Marked
Tendency
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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 / Critic
Imagination
Curious
Great Power
Above
Actual
Subject
Task
Whaling
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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 / Critic
Literature
Speech
Variables
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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 / Critic
Broken
Discovery
Two
Charges
Fitted
Pleased
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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 / Critic
Uncles
Sympathy
Cabins
Coincidence
Died
Fiction
Limits
Mark
Mere
Passing
Years
Life Power Great
Cabin
Cooper
Produced
Tom
Uncle
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