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Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.
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Bret Hartewas an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.
Harte moved from California to the eastern U.S. and later to Europe. He incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been those most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.
6 Quotes by Bret Harte
- 1.
Never a lip is curved with pain that can’t be kissed into smiles again.
Bret HarteAmerican writer and poet
- 2.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Bret HarteAmerican writer and poet
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret HarteAmerican writer and poet
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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Bret HarteAmerican writer and poet
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A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Bret HarteAmerican writer and poet
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
Bret HarteAmerican writer and poet