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About Nathaniel Hawthorne
American novelist and short story writer
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known for fiction that explores history, morality, and religion, often through a reflective and uneasy lens. His work helped define the American short story and remains closely associated with themes of guilt, conscience, and the past. Across his novels and shorter fiction, he returns to questions of human nature and the moral weight of experience.
More from Nathaniel Hawthorne (113 quotes) →More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he…”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite…”Nathaniel Hawthorne
Religion: more sayings
- “When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-…”Terry Pratchett
- “God has no religion.”Mahatma Gandhi
- “Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred,…”Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Explore Faith
- “Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as M…”Irving Kirsch
- “Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”Novalis
- “'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and desp…”Robert Battle
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Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
1871
The Blithedale Romance
1999
Mosses from an Old Manse
2005
Tanglewood Tales
2007
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
2006