“Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.”
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Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
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“Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.”
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“Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
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“Fear is the mother of foresight.”
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“The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”
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“Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.”
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“My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.”
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“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
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“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
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