Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by George Washington Cable

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

George Washington Cable was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century", as well as "the first modern Southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner.

American - Novelist | October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925

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There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

George Washington Cable

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

George Washington Cable

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

George Washington Cable

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

George Washington Cable

For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

George Washington Cable

It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.

George Washington Cable

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by George Washington Cable

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