. American novelist short story writer essayist and poet
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Juxtaposition marries men. Go to Quote / Comment
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads th... Go to Quote / Comment
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Go to Quote / Comment
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. Go to Quote / Comment
Adrift dissolving, bound for death; Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one—... Go to Quote / Comment