Vistana Vacation Quotes & Sayings

(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added, often gathers in the gray 'twilight of the reason,' on 'the borderland between experience and illusion. Howells's geographical metaphor was derived, of course, from Hawthorne's idea of a moonlit 'neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.' Whether literally, as in Cooper's The Spy, or metaphorically, as in Hawthorne's works, the neutral territory/borderland was the familiar setting of the American romance. As American writers came to realize, not only was there a borderland between East and West, civilization and wilderness, but also between the here and the hereafter, between conscious and unconscious, 'experience and illusion' - psychic frontiers on the edge of territories both enticing and terrifying. — Howard Kerr

I think anxiety is very interesting, observed Amy, eating sugar pensively. — Louisa May Alcott

Some of my closest friends are songwriters. I'm in love with the way they can create music and magic. — Danielle Barone

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back. — Gloria Gaynor

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount. — Kenneth Blackwell

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. — Bernard Baruch