"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."

-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Uncles Quotes #Years Quotes #Limits Quotes

“Some days you're depressed, some days you're happy, some days you're broken hearted. People need music for therapy, to heal them or speak for them when they can't describe how they're feeling.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.”
“I don't remember one thing I learned in school.”
“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.”
“Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.”
“The condition of my skin changes often, depending on the season or if I'm traveling a lot.”
“There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.”

Source : Chuck Hillig (2007). “Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of who You are”, p.235, Sentient Publications

You may also like:

Allan Nevins
Historian
Carolyn Heilbrun
Author
Charles A. Beard
Historian
Charles Van Doren
Intellectual
James Branch Cabell
Author
Joseph Wood Krutch
Writer
Lionel Trilling
Literary critic
Mark Van Doren
Poet
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist