The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama… Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long Quotes
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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| Birth: | 9th March, 1888 |
| Death: | 17th October, 1956 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Poet, Professor |
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Haniel Clark Long was born in Rangoon, Burma. He was an American poet, novelist, journalist and professor. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, he started a career as a reporter for the New York Globe but returned to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was promoted to head the English Department in 1920. He wrote several books include: Notes for a New Mythology, Pittsburgh memoranda, The power within us, Walt Whitman and the springs of courage, Piñon country, Spring Returns(novel), My Seasons(poem), Atlantides(poem), The Marvellous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca, The Grist Mill, If He Can Make Her So, and Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca.
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