Hervey Allen Quotes

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Hervey Allen

Generation, Fresh, Invasion

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

Facts, Material, Legends

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

Leaving, Here, Less

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
Hervey Allen

Material, Historical, Background

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

True, Often, Color

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

Five, Keeping, Senses

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 8, 1889

Died: December 28, 1949

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