Caroline Gordon
1895 - 1981
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Quotes
Biography
Caroline Gordon was an American novelist and literary critic. Born in 1895 in Kentucky, she was known for her Southern Gothic writing style. Gordon was a prominent figure in the Southern Renaissance literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s. She often collaborated with her husband, poet Allen Tate, and they were part of a literary circle known as the Fugitives, later renamed the Agrarians.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the love of discipline, one would be tempted to turn away and become carefree, to drift with the stream, but discipline, however harsh, is a lamp that lights the way, and leads to heights most men never reach.
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If a man like you can buy into my work, one which I believe in totally, then I will feel I'm reaching the real world, after all.
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There are wrongs you cannot right without suffering and it would seem I am fated to suffer a great deal.
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A happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad to find that the good characters are finally happy. What we really demand of a novel is that it be interesting.
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We are ruled, though they may not know it, by little men.