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Parke Godwin

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United States journalist (1816-1904)

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Works
97

Top works

  • Autobiography : Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
  • Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke, Volumes 1-2
  • the snake oil wars
  • The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again
  • Prose Writing of william cullen bryan T

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Quotes

  • Smart eats, stupid starves.
  • True believers coming to the fore with the same old theme—don’t you make out you’re better than us—defining a narrow God by what they themselves hated and feared.
  • Hard men and women, from Barion’s firsthand recollection: not always thinking of God but seeing Him hard as themselves when they did. Their descendants much the same, not as hard but needing that peculiarly American form of religious ecstasy blended of poverty, ignorance, degenerated mysticism, collected injuries and the need for vengeance.
  • Woody had more talent than drive, but a musician, even a poor one, was preferable to a fanatic. He could only assault the ear.
  • “If you are in trouble, so am I. Two rowers in a sinking lifeboat telling each other ‘I told you so’ doesn’t keep either from drowning.”
  • Countries are just like women. Sooner or later everyone loses their cherry and gets to be just another broad on the block.

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