Paul Horgan Quotes

American - Author | August 1, 1903 - March 8, 1995

Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.

Paul Horgan

FatherMotherBeautifulTalentMe

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

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WhereEverybodyTolstoyLivesWrites

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

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PersonAliveKnowWantNextContext

The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.

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PastArtistTrueNeverAnything

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

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DeserveOutBelongWhoHeHimself

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

Paul Horgan

VisionFindCommonValuableEra

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

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MeThinkOne ThingThingPut

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

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GodLookAlwaysMortals

King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window's sunshine in summer.

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WinterSunshineFireKingWindow

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

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LoveMoreLittleThanManyRecent

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