Hervey Allen quotes
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“Religions change; beer and wine remain.”
-- Hervey AllenSource : Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”
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“Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.”
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“Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.”
-- Hervey AllenSource : Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”
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“Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.”
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“Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.”
-- Hervey AllenSource : Hervey Allen (1968). “Toward the Flame: A War Diary”, [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
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“Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”
-- Hervey AllenSource : Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”
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“Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.”
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“Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.”
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“Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”
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“I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine”
Source : Song: Water
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Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor
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“A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.”
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“You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”
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“It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.”
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