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A learned man came to me once.He said, "I know the way, -- come."And I was overjoyed at this.Togethe...

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The Black Riders and Other Lines

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the nam...

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The Open Boat and Other Stories

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would n...

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It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe,...

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None of them knew the color of the sky.

Every sin is the result of a colaboration

The Blue Hotel and Other Stories

This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved hisrespectability by a...

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moo...

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap ...

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Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

It was wrong to do this," said the angel."You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,...

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Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I i...

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Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one ...

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Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indiff...

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There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was ...

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It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the...

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The Red Badge of Courage

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

The Red Badge of Courage

A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything tha...

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The Red Badge of Courage

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

The Red Badge of Courage

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demons...

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The Red Badge of Courage

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

The Red Badge of Courage

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than...

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The Portable Stephen Crane

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been...

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The Portable Stephen Crane

Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame a...

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Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affr...

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These men were born to drill and die.            Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,        ...

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He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at suc...

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Stephen Crane

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Born: 1871-11-01

Died: 1900-06-05

Stephen Crane (1 November 1871 – 5 June 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist.More