Hervey Allen Quotes

• Religions change; beer and wine remain.

  Hervey Allen

  Wine, Beer, Religion

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

  Hervey Allen

  Savages, Generations, Invasion

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• Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

  Hervey Allen

  Legends, Facts, Materials

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• Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

  Hervey Allen

  Memorial Day, Lying, Heart

  Hervey Allen (1968). “Toward the Flame: A War Diary”, [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Hervey Allen

  Age, Five Senses, 20th Birthday

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

  Hervey Allen

  Distance, Book, Blue

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• Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

  Hervey Allen

  Color, Borders, Void

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• Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

  Hervey Allen

  Book, Expectations, Skylines

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilization, Leaving, Departed

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