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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.

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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

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty … The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

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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.

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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

Hervey Allen

Born: December 8, 1889

Died: December 28, 1949 (aged 60)

Bio: William Hervey Allen, Jr. was an American author.

Known for:

Anthony Adverse (1933)
Toward the flame (1926)
The Forest and the Fort (1943)
Israfel (1926)
Lute and Scimitar

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