I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick, the book that swallowed European civilization whole.
E.L. DoctorowTags: american-literature
I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.
Mark TwainTags: american-literature mark-twain adventures-of-huckleberry-finn classic-american-literature
You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.Try fighting with your head for a change . . .it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
Harper LeeTags: classic american-literature
For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open mic is about 1 poet, one fellow human being up on a stage or behind a podium sharing their work regardless of what form or style they bring to it. In other words? The guy with the low slam score is more than likely a far better poet-writer than the guy who actually won. But who are you? I ? Or really anyone else to judge them? The Poetry Slam has become an overgrown, over used monopoly on American literature and poetry and is now over utilized by the academic
R.M. EngelhardtTags: poetry on-writing american-literature slam slam-poetry r-m-engelhardt open-mics
Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.
Tony KushnerTags: queer drama american-literature angels-in-america kushner
Harper: You, the one part of
the real world I wasn't allergic to.
Tags: love queer drama american-literature angels-in-america kushner
Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time.
Donald HaysTags: baseball american-literature arkansas southern-fiction
Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.
Donald HaysTags: religion american-literature arkansas southern-fiction
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