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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
- “Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never kn…”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and ca…”Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.”Nathaniel Hawthorne
Memory: more sayings
- “I thought I saw a memory." The nun looks at her funny as the bus turns into a position she can no longer see…”Kerr E. Lorenz
- “She had thought about that moment so often during the past few years it had dried out. It was stale, like old…”Cassandra Rose Clarke
- “Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without f…”Leonard Cohen
Time: more sayings
- “Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the…”Chiang Kai-shek
- “Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it…”Walter Hill
- “I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.”John Hurt
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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