~ Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes ~

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Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes


An American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist.
Stephen Vincent Benet (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benet is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". In 2009, The Library of America selected Benet's story "The King of Cats" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.

Here are some famous quotes by Stephen Spender.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

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He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

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(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

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As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

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We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate black sorcery stones.