Hawthorne quotes
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"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!"
"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.""
"Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing."
"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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