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Caroline Gordon

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Caroline Gordon was an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic who wrote in English.

She was born on October 6, 1895, in Todd County, and was educated at Bethany College. Over the course of her career she produced fiction and criticism, and she became associated with the Southern Agrarians, a group with whom she shared intellectual and regional connections.

Gordon received recognition for her work in more than one form. She was given an O. Henry Award in 1934 and was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. These honors reflected the range of her output, which moved across the novel, the short story, and literary criticism.

She died on April 11, 1981, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Her writing spanned both narrative fiction and critical prose, and her connection to the Southern Agrarians remained one of the defining associations of her career.

Quotes by Caroline Gordon

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
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As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
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#writing
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.
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There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.
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#irrelevance
We do not judge great art. It judges us.
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We do not judge great art. It judges us.
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#umpires
A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
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A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
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#firsts
It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.
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It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.
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#talking
... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.
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... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.
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#cities
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
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#imagination #writing #books