Sarah Orne Jewett: Mind

Sarah Orne Jewett was American novelist, short story writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on mind.
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“The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.”

Sarah Orne Jewett

Letter to Willa Cather, quoted in the preface to The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (1925)

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“Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”

Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 5

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