Caroline Gordon Quotes

• A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

  Caroline Gordon

  Book, Magic, World

  "How to Read a Novel". Book by Caroline Gordon, p. 234, 1957.

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• We do not judge great art. It judges us.

  Caroline Gordon

  Art, Umpires, Judging

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• As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

  Caroline Gordon

  Writing, Great Men, Wells

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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.

  Caroline Gordon

  Irrelevance, Shadow, Age

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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.

  Caroline Gordon

  Passion, Cities, Greek

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• A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

  Caroline Gordon

  Book, Half, Dozen

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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.

  Caroline Gordon

  Talking, Strange, Form

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