Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
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My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Fathers
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Friendship
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper—whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Literature, Books
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Manners, Tact
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Writing
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Age, Aging
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Historians, History
The growth of friendship might be a lifelong affair.
—Sarah Orne Jewett
Topics: Friendship
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