Best Hawthorne Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is no decay. Each human soul is the first created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered mansion, and tread in the worn footprints of the past, and have a gray clergyman’s ghost for our daily and nightly inmate; yet all these outward circumstances are made less than visionary, by the renewing power of the spirit.”

Spirit Humanity Eden Hawthorne

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”

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Book:Dora: A Headcase

Source: Dora: A Headcase

“La mayoría de las personas no tienen tantos recelos ante lo sobrenatural como les gusta creer a los novelistas. La mayor parte de los escritores que se ocupan de ese tema, en realidad, son mas escépticos respecto de los espíritus, los demonios y los espantapájaros de lo que suele serlo el hombre de la calle. Lovecraft era ateo. Edgar Allan Poe, un trascendentalista bastante ignorante. Y la religión de Hawthorne no era mas que convencional.”

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Book:’Salem’s Lot

Source: ’Salem’s Lot

“Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.”

Drama Two Evils Melville Hawthorne Two Wrongs

Book:The Whale: A Love Story

Source: The Whale: A Love Story

“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”

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Book:The Hawthorne Legacy

Source: The Hawthorne Legacy

“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”

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Book:The Last Novel

Source: The Last Novel

“Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.”

Found Sides Dark Groups Air Flower Pride Punishment Weather Pale Beaten Foxes Violet Cliffs Gloves Stains Hue Emblems Hawthorne

Book:The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake

Source: The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake

“Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.”

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Book:Hours in a Library

Source: Hours in a Library

“There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.”

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Author:Anthony Lane

“Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.”

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Author:Alice Hoffman

“The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.”

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Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

“Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.”

World Stills Sometimes Feelings Lasts Energy Sides Forever Air Sky Standing Blue Green Warm Sensations Thick Laziness Delicious Lanes Blue Sky Standing Still Hawthorne

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.”

Stills Seems Today America Behinds Essence Forgotten Thoughtful Predecessors Hawthorne

Author:Johan Huizinga

“[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.”

America Literature Praise Blame Deceit Pious Chuckles Hawthorne

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.”

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Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.”

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Author:John Updike

“Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.”

Knows Feelings Dream Together Emotion Produce Complexes Obvious Complicated Glorious Prose Regions Do You Know Vivid Anthology Blazing Illuminating Hawthorne

Author:Chris Bachelder

“Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.”

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Author:Julian Barnes

“My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.”

“The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people playing music, and arguing. It was too busy.”

People Writing Reason Done Enough House Names Left Community Busy Arguing Circles Make Sense Too Busy Playing Music Residents Hawthorne

Author:Christine Jennings

“Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.”

Writing Said Hard Reading Easy Damn Hawthorne

Author:Maya Angelou

“It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?”

“Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!”

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Book:A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts

“Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!”

Giving Running Moving Goodness Blessed Bites Running Away Mary Snakes Lure Zeus Good God Hera Hawthorne

Author:Daniel Handler

“Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.”

Men Said Ideas Might Spirit Felt Creative Massachusetts Creative Spirit Hawthorne

Book:Henry D. Thoreau

Source: Henry D. Thoreau

“During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.”

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Author:Vanessa Lengies

“Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.”

Years Self Stories Boys Violence Teaching Pride Roots Obsession Purity Folly Condemnation Flowering Hawthorne

Book:Old School

Source: Old School

“There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.”

Men Lying House Conditions Ego Devil Europe Crosses Eternity Damn Bags Customs Thunder Carpet Frontiers Traveller Baggage Hawthorne

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.”

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Author:Chuck Eddy

“I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.”