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Carl Sandburg
January 6, 1878 to July 22, 1967
Born in Galesburg, Illinois & Died in Flat Rock, North Carolina
Poet, historian, novelist, biographer, two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A huge figure in American literature of the early 20th century.
Quote
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
Off-Site Resource
Good Carl Sandburg Website Concentrating On The Chicago Poems
Bibliography (a small selection)
Poetry
In Reckless Ecstasy - 1904
Chicago Poems - 1916
Cornhuskers - 1918
Smoke and Steel - 1920
The People, Yes - 1936
Poems of the Midwest (Contains Cornhuskers and Chicago Poems) - 1946
Harvest Poems, 1910 - 1960 - 1960
Lincoln Biography
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years - 1926
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years - 1939
An index of all author pages on Happy Dead Trees
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Author Profiles
- Westlake, Donald - Bibliography
- Crane, Hart
- Pyle, Ernie
- Whitman, Walt
- Ferber, Edna
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Barnes, Linda
- Salinger, J. D.
- Parker, Robert B.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Miller, Henry
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- King, Stephen
- London, Jack
- Abbey, Edward
- Asimov, Isaac
- Ballard, J. G.
- Author Index
- Morley, Christopher
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Ambrose, Stephen
- Hunter, Evan
- Carr, John Dickson
- Adams, Brooks
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, Richard
- Agee, James
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Anthony, Piers
- Austen, Jane
Great Quotations
- Jack London on the advantages of not being a cabbage
Author's Name Jack London Type of Quote Animals
Change"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better." - Edith Wharton on Secrets and Age
Author's Name Edith Wharton He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. - Edith Wharton on Weddings
Author's Name Edith Wharton She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband! - James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice B. Sheldon)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Truman Capote
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.
- Jack London
"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
- Donald Westlake
"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
- John Gregory Dunne
"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
- G.K. Chesterton
"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
- Stephen King
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