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Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

1804–1864

23 quotes, most often on Love, Truth & Lies and Happiness.

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
The Snow-Image, and Other Tales, Preface (1852)
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
The Scarlet Letter (1850), The Custom-HouseIn context
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