“And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
“I longed to know the world's name.”
Now and Then: Poems, 1978–1979 (1979)
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American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905–1989Related quotes
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Context: I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world. I can't tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go where I will, everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me … There must therefore be something in me, or about me, that attracts attention, which is even mysterious to myself.
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It takes a long time to forget an iron man.”
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