Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Horgan

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction who mainly wrote about the Southwestern United States. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes for History.

American - Author | August 1, 1903 - March 8, 1995

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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.

Paul Horgan

It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.

Paul Horgan

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

Paul Horgan

King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window's sunshine in summer.

Paul Horgan

Everybody around me was talented and gave everybody talent. Everybody painted. My mother had a beautiful voice. My father was a marvelous drawing-room actor.

Paul Horgan

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

Paul Horgan

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

Paul Horgan

Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.

Paul Horgan

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

Paul Horgan

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

Paul Horgan

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

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The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

Paul Horgan

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Paul Horgan

There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.

Paul Horgan

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Horgan

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