Matthew Pearl
Quotes by Matthew Pearl
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He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.
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It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
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Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon. Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him.
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Longfellow smiled. A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true— without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
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Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon. Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him.
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He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true— without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
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It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
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'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'
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Longfellow smiled. A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
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When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.
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Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word 'Dickensian' could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.
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Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.
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Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.
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'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.
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