Nathaniel Hawthorne, from The Scarlet Letter: A Romance
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Btw friendly reminder that the anime cut the scene where after jumping off the sinking ship Mitchell and Hawthorne encountered James L. - the Guild's top-level's secretary that the pm killed at the end of season 1 -... Only to find out it was actually his corpse standing tall, eviscerated and filled with lemon bombs, complete with graphic depiction of his face splitting open and lemon bombs rolling off it
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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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—your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours
Herman Melville, from a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne c. 17th November 1851
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One of my favorite genres of American literature is “I am simultaneously horrified and fascinated by what I imagine Catholicism to be.”
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