Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
—Stephen Crane
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
—Stephen Crane
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats.
—Stephen Crane
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
—Stephen Crane
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.
—Stephen Crane
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- John Neal American Author, Critic
- Wendell Berry American Author, Environmentalist
- John Updike American Author
- Louis L’Amour American Novelist
- Conrad Aiken American Poet, Novelist
- Richard Wright American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
- Stephen Vincent Benet American Poet
- Sidney Lanier American Poet
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