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Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Other quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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best
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Sky & Clouds
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Love
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Other Quotes from
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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Writing

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow

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Writing

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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Writing

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