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D. Howells [WH#46][whlfr10.txt]3399 + +Aug 2002 First Visit To New England, by W. Howells [WH#45][whvne10.txt]3398 +[Full Title: My First Visit To New England, by W. D. Howells, 1911] +CONTENTS: + Bibliographical + My First Visit To New England + First Impressions Of Literary New York + +Aug 2002 Roundabout To Boston, by W. D. Howells [WH#44][whrtb10.txt]3397 +[Full Title: Roundabout To Boston, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Literary Boston, by William Dean Howells [WH#43][whbos10.txt]3396 +[Full Title: Literary Boston As I Knew It, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Oliver Wendell Holmes, by W. D. Howells [WH#42][whowh10.txt]3395 +[Full Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 The White Mr. Longfellow, by W. Howells [WH#41][whlng10.txt]3394 +[Full Title: The White Mr. Longfellow, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Studies Of Lowell, by William Dean Howells [WH#40][whlow10.txt]3393 +[Full Title: Studies Of Lowell, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Cambridge Neighbors, by W. D. Howells [WH#39][whcbn10.txt]3392 +[Full Title: Cambridge Neighbors, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 A Belated Guest, by Willam Dean Howells [WH#38][whabg10.txt]3391 +[Full Title: A Belated Guest, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 My Mark Twain, by Willam Dean Howells [WH#37][whmmt10.txt]3390 +[Full Title: My Mark Twain, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Complete Literature And Life, by Howells [WH#36][whlal10.txt]3389 +[Full Title: Literature And Life [Studies] by W. D. Howells, 1911] +CONTENTS: + Man of Letters in Business + Confessions of a Summer Colonist + The Young Contributor + Last Days in a Dutch Hotel + Anomalies of the Short Story + Spanish Prisoners of War + American Literary Centers + Standard Household Effect Co. + Notes of a Vanished Summer + Worries of a Winter Walk + Summer Isles of Eden + Wild Flowers of the Asphalt + A Circus in the Suburbs + A She Hamlet + The Midnight Platoon + The Beach at Rockaway + Sawdust in the Arena + At a Dime Museum + American Literature in Exile + The Horse Show + The Problem of the Summer + Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago + From New York into New England + The Art of the Adsmith + The Psychology of Plagiarism + Puritanism in American Fiction + The What and How in Art + Politics in American Authors + Storage + "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o" + +Aug 2002 Man Of Letters In Business, by W. Howells [WH#35][whmlb10.txt]3388 +[Full Title: The Man Of Letters As A Man Of Business by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Confessions Of Summer Colonist, by Howells [WH#34][whcsc10.txt]3387 +[Full Title: Confessions Of A Summer Colonist W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 The Young Contributor, by W. D. Howells [WH#33][whtyc10.txt]3386 +[Full Title: The Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor by W. D. +Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Last Days In A Dutch Hotel, by W. Howells [WH#32][whldh10.txt]3385 +[Full Title: Last Days In A Dutch Hotel by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Anomalies Of The Short Story, by Howells [WH#31][whass10.txt]3384 +[Full Title: Some Anomalies Of The Short Story by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Spanish Prisoners Of War, by W. Howells [WH#30][whspw10.txt]3383 +[Full Title: Spanish Prisoners Of War by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 American Literary Centers, by W. Howells [WH#29][whalc10.txt]3382 +[Full Title: American Literary Centers, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Standard Household Effect Co., by Howells [WH#28][whshe10.txt]3381 +[Full Title: The Standard Household-Effect Company, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Notes Of A Vanished Summer, by W. Howells [WH#27][whvan10.txt]3380 +[Full Title: Stacatto Notes Of A Vanished Summer, by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Short Stories And Essays, by W. Howells [WH#26][whsse10.txt]3379 +[Full Title: Literature And Life [Studies] W. D. Howells, 1911] +CONTENTS: + Worries of a Winter Walk + Summer Isles of Eden + Wild Flowers of the Asphalt + A Circus in the Suburbs + A She Hamlet + The Midnight Platoon + The Beach at Rockaway + Sawdust in the Arena + At a Dime Museum + American Literature in Exile + The Horse Show + The Problem of the Summer + Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago + From New York into New England + The Art of the Adsmith + The Psychology of Plagiarism + Puritanism in American Fiction + The What and How in Art + Politics in American Authors + Storage + "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o" + +Aug 2002 My Literary Passions, by W. D. Howells [WH#25][whmlp10.txt]3378 +[Full Title: My Literary Passions/Criticism & Fiction by W. D. Howells, 1910] + +Aug 2002 Criticism and Fiction, by W. D. Howells [WH#24][whcaf10.txt]3377 +[Full Title: My Literary Passions/Criticism & Fiction by W. D. Howells, 1910] + +Aug 2002 The Landlord At Lions Head V2, by Howells [WH#23][wh2lh10.txt]3376 +Aug 2002 The Landlord At Lions Head V1, by Howells [WH#22][wh1lh10.txt]3375 +[Full Title: The Landlord At Lion's Head by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 The Entire March Family Trilogy, by Howells[WH#21][whemf10.txt]3374 +CONTENTS: + Their Wedding Journey + A Hazard Of New Fortunes + Their Silver Wedding Journey + +Aug 2002 Silver Wedding Journey V3 by W. D. Howells [WH#20][wh3sw10.txt]3373 +[Full Title: Their Silver Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1900] + +Aug 2002 Silver Wedding Journey V2, by W. D. Howells[WH#19][wh2sw10.txt]3372 +[Full Title: Their Silver Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1900] + +Aug 2002 Silver Wedding Journey V1, by W. D. Howells[WH#18][wh1sw10.txt]3371 +[Full Title: Their Silver Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1900] + +Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V5, by W. Howells [WH#17][wh5nf10.txt]3370 +[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911] + + +Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V4, by W. Howells [WH#16][wh4nf10.txt]3369 +[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V3, by W. Howells [WH#15][wh3nf10.txt]3368 +[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V2, by W. Howells [WH#14][wh2nf10.txt]3367 +[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V1, by W. Howells [WH#13][wh1nf10.txt]3366 +[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911] + +Aug 2002 Their Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells [WH#12][whtwj10.txt]3365 +[Full Title: Their Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1895] + +Aug 2002 Dr. Breen's Practice, by W. D. Howells [WH#11][whdbp10.txt]3364 +[Full Title: Dr. Breen's Practice, by W. D. Howells, 1881] + +Aug 2002 Fennel And Rue, by William Dean Howells [WH#10][whfar10.txt]3363 +[Full Title: Fennel And Rue, by W. D. Howells, 1908] + +Aug 2002 The Kentons, by William Dean Howells [WH#09][whken10.txt]3362 +[Full Title: The Kentons, by W. D. Howells, 1902] + + + + + + + EDITOR'S NOTE + +Readers well acquainted with the works of William Dean Howells +may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this +selection. The etext editor will be glad to add your suggestions. +One of the advantages of internet over paper publication is the ease +of quick revision. + +All the titles may be found using the Project Gutenberg search engine. +After downloading a specific file, the location and complete context of +the quotations may be found by inserting a small part of the quotation +into the 'Find' or 'Search' functions of the user's word processing +program. + +The quotations are in two formats: + 1. Small passages from the text. + 2. A list of alphabetized one-liners. + +The editor may be contacted at <widger@cecomet.net> for comments, +questions or suggested additions to these extracts. + +D.W. + + + + + + + WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS + + + +THE KENTONS +[WH#09][whken10.txt]3362 + +"Well, that's good," said the young man, and while he talked on she sat +wondering at a nature which all modesty and deference seemed left out of, +though he had sometimes given evidence of his intellectual appreciation +of these things. + +She was polite to them all, but to Boyne she was flattering, and he was +too little used to deference from ladies ten years his senior not to be +very sensible of her worth in offering it. + +She in turn, to be sure, offered herself a sacrifice to the whims of the +sick girl, whose worst whim was having no wish that could be ascertained, +and who now, after two days of her mother's devotion, was cast upon her +own resources by the inconstant barometer. + +It was more difficult for Mrs. Kenton to get rid of the judge, but an +inscrutable frown goes far in such exigencies. + + + + + +FENNEL AND RUE +[WH#10][whfar10.txt]3363 + +I used almost to die of hunger for something to happen. + +She had downed the hoary superstition that people had too much of a good +time on Christmas to want any good time at all in the week following; and +in acting upon the well-known fact that you never wanted a holiday so +much as the day after you had one, she had made a movement of the highest +social importance. + +She added, less sharply: "She couldn't afford to fail, though, at any +point. The fad that fails is extinguished forever. Will these simple +facts do for fiction? Or is it for somebody in real life you're asking, +Mr. Verrian?" + + + + + +DR. BREEN'S PRACTICE +[WH#11][whdbp10.txt]3364 + +The neat weather-gray dwellings, shingled to the ground and brightened +with door-yard flowers and creepers, straggled off into the boat-houses +and fishing-huts on the shore, and the village seemed to get afloat at +last in the sloops and schooners riding in the harbor, whose smooth plane +rose higher to the eye than the town itself. + +Very probably Dr. Mulbridge would not have recognized himself in the +character of all-compelling lady's-novel hero, which Miss Gleason +imagined for him. + +Dr. Mulbridge smiled, as if he perceived her intention not to tell him +something she wished to tell him. + +"I believe that if Mrs. Maynard had had the same confidence in me that +she would have had in any man I should not have failed. But every woman +physician has a double disadvantage that I hadn't the strength to +overcome,--her own inexperience and the distrust of other women." + + + + + +THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY +[WH#12][whtwj10.txt]3365 + +In the distance on either hand they could see cars and carts and wagons +toiling up and down the avenues, and on the next intersecting pavement +sometimes a laborer with his jacket slung across his shoulder, or a dog +that had plainly made up his mind to go mad. + +Then it appeared that the cook would not believe in them, and he did not +send them, till they were quite faint, the peppery and muddy draught +which impudently affected to be coffee, the oily slices of fugacious +potatoes slipping about in their shallow dish and skillfully evading +pursuit, the pieces of beef that simulated steak, the hot, greasy +biscuit, steaming evilly up into the face when opened, and then soddening +into masses of condensed dyspepsia. + +"No," said Basil, not yet used to having his decisions reached without +his knowledge. + +In a moment it had come, the first serious dispute of their wedded life. +It had come as all such calamities come, from nothing, and it was on them +in full disaster ere they knew. + +(A reader suggested this additional quote:) +I suppose that almost any evil commends itself by its ruin; the wrecks of +slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. + + + + + +A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V1 +[WH#13][wh1nf10.txt]3366 + +She was a little worn out with the care of housekeeping--Mrs. March +breathed, "Oh yes!" in the sigh with which ladies recognize one another's +martyrdom-- + +He experienced remorse in the presence of inanimate things he was going +to leave as if they had sensibly reproached him, and an anticipative +homesickness that seemed to stop his heart. + +They were at that time of life when people first turn to their children's +opinion with deference. + +He expected to do the wrong thing when left to his own devices, and he +did it without any apparent recollection of his former misdeeds and their +consequences. There was a good deal of comedy in it all, and some +tragedy. + +She expected him in this event to do as he pleased, and she resigned +herself to it with considerable comfort in holding him accountable. He +learned to expect this, and after suffering keenly from her +disappointment with whatever he did he waited patiently till she forgot +her grievance and began to extract what consolation lurks in the +irreparable. + + + + + +A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V2 +[WH#14][wh2nf10.txt]3367 + +"Now, Alma," said her mother, with the clinging persistence of such +natures. + +Mrs. March asked her husband what a dividend was. "It's a chicken before +it's hatched." + +"I am not blue, Alma. But I cannot endure this--this hopefulness of +yours." + +What you want is some man who can have patience with mediocrity putting +on the style of genius, and with genius turning mediocrity on his hands. + +You know we Southerners have all had to go to woak. But Ah don't mand it. +I tell papa I shouldn't ca' fo' the disgrace of bein' poo' if it wasn't +fo' the inconvenience." + +He had that timidity of the elder in the presence of the younger man +which the younger, preoccupied with his own timidity in the presence of +the elder, cannot imagine. + + + + + +A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V3 +[WH#15][wh3nf10.txt]3368 + +Dryfoos complained to his wife on the basis of mere affectional habit, +which in married life often survives the sense of intellectual equality. +He did not expect her to reason with him, but there was help in her +listening, and though she could only soothe his fretfulness with soft +answers which were often wide of the purpose, he still went to her for +solace. + +He began to brag of his wife, as a good husband always does when another +woman charms him. + +His courage hadn't been put to the test, and courage is a matter of +proof, like proficiency on the fiddle, you know: you can't tell whether +you've got it till you try." + +I wish that old friend of hers would hurry up and git well--or something. + +Men who have made money and do not yet know that money has made them.... + + + + + +A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V4 +[WH#16][wh4nf10.txt]3369 + +He seemed to be lying in wait for some encroachment of the literary +department on the art department, and he met it now and then with +anticipative reprisal. + +In the course of his married life March had learned not to censure the +irretrievable; but this was just what his wife had not learned.... + +She was too ignorant of her ignorance to recognize the mistakes she made. + +But in these matters we have no right to burden our friends with our +decisions." + +The Marches had no longer the gross appetite for novelty which urges +youth to a surfeit of strange scenes, experiences, ideas; and makes +travel, with all its annoyances and fatigues, an inexhaustible delight. + + + + + +A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V5 +[WH#17][wh5nf10.txt]3370 + +Death is an exile that no remorse and no love can reach. Remember that, +and be good to every one here on earth, for your longing to retrieve any +harshness or unkindness to the dead will be the very ecstasy of anguish +to you. + +"Oh, death doesn't look bad," said March. "It's life that looks so in its +presence. Death is peace and pardon. + +Does any one deserve happiness? + +Let their love of justice hurry them into sympathy with violence. + +"Does anything from without change us?" her husband mused aloud. "We're +brought up to think so by the novelists, who really have the charge of +people's thinking, nowadays. + +"Yes, people that have convictions are difficult. Fortunately, they're +rare." + +To do whatever one likes is finally to do nothing that one likes, even +though one continues to do what one will.... + + + + +SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY, V1 +[WH#18][wh1sw10.txt]3371 + +The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, +or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death +and sorrow. + +I don't know. It seems to me that I'm less and less certain of everything +that I used to be sure of. + +But the madness of sight-seeing, which spoils travel, was on them, and +they delivered themselves up to it as they used in their ignorant youth, +though now they knew its futility so well. They spared themselves nothing +that they had time for. + +Men would say anything from a reckless and culpable optimism. + +While they all talked on together, and repeated the nothings they had +said already.... + + + + + +SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY, V2 +[WH#19][wh2sw10.txt]3372 +It's so deeply founded in nature that after denying royalty by word and +deed for a hundred years, we Americans are hungrier for it than anybody +else. + +He buys my poverty and not my will. + +There was no wild life to penetrate his isolation; no birds, not a +squirrel, not an insect; an old man who had bidden him good-morning, as +he came up, kept fumbling at the path with his hoe, and was less +intrusive than if he had not been there. + +He lost the sense of his wife's presence, and answered her vaguely. She +talked contentedly on in the monologue to which the wives of absent- +minded men learn to resign themselves. + +The disadvantage of living long is that we get too much into the hands of +other people. + + + + + +SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY, V3 +[WH#20][wh3sw10.txt]3373 + +Summoned the passengers to declare that they had nothing to declare, as a +preliminary to being searched like thieves at the dock. + +It's the illusions: no marriage can be perfect without them, and at their +age the Kenbys can't have them. + +You expected the ideal. And that's what makes all the trouble, in married +life: we expect too much of each other--we each expect more of the other +than we are willing to give or can give. If I had to begin over again, I +should not expect anything at all, and then I should be sure of being +radiantly happy. + +She always came to his defence when he accused himself; it was the best +ground he could take with her. + + + + + +THE ENTIRE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY +[WH#21][whemf10.txt]3374 + +The sea-sickness was confined to those who seemed wilful sufferers. + +The voting-cattle whom they bought and sold. + +There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure: a headache +darkens the universe while it lasts, a cup of tea really lightens the +spirit bereft of all reasonable consolations. + +She has a great respect for your mind, but she don't think you've got any +sense. + +Uncounted thousands within doors prolonging, before the day's terror +began, the oblivion of sleep. + +She wonders the happiest women in the world can look each other in the +face without bursting into tears, their happiness is so unreasonable, and +so built upon and hedged about with misery. She declares that there's +nothing so sad to her as a bride, unless it's a young mother, or a little +girl growing up in the innocent gayety of her heart. She wonders they can +live through it. + + + + + +THE LANDLORD AT LIONS HEAD, V1 +[WH#22][wh1lh10.txt]3375 + +Crimson torch of a maple, kindled before its time +Disposition to use his friends +Fear of asking too much and the folly of asking too little +Government is best which governs least +Honesty is difficult +Insensate pride that mothers have in their children's faults +Joyful shame of children who have escaped punishment +Married Man: after the first start-off he don't try +Nothing in the way of sport, as people commonly understand it +People whom we think unequal to their good fortune +Society interested in a woman's past, not her future +The great trouble is for the man to be honest with her +We're company enough for ourselves +Women talked their follies and men acted theirs +World seems to always come out at the same hole it went in at! + + + + + +THE LANDLORD AT LIONS HEAD, V2 +[WH#23][wh2lh10.txt]3376 + +Boldest man is commonly a little behind a timid woman +Crimson which stained the tops and steeps of snow +Errors of a weak man, which were usually the basest +Exchanging inaudible banalities +He might walk home with her if he would not seem to do so +He's the same kind of a man that he was a boy +Hollow hilarities which people use to mask their indifference +If one must, it ought to be champagne +Intent upon some point in the future +No two men see the same star +Pathetic hopefulness +Picture which, he said to himself, no one would believe in +Quiet but rather dull look of people slightly deaf +Stupefied by a life of unalloyed prosperity and propriety +To be exemplary is as dangerous as to be complimentary +Want something hard, don't you know; but I want it to be easy +With all her insight, to have very little artistic sense +World made up of two kinds of people + + + + + +CRITICISM AND FICTION +[WH#24][whcaf10.txt]3377 + +Authorities +Browbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrust +Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped +Concerning popularity as a test of merit in a book +Critical vanity and self-righteousness +Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature +Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust +Fact that it is hash many times warmed over that reassures them +Forbear the excesses of analysis +Glance of the common eye, is and always was the best light +Greatest classics are sometimes not at all great +Holiday literature +Imitators of one another than of nature +Languages, while they live, are perpetually changing +Let fiction cease to lie about life +Long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition +Made them talk as seldom man and never woman talked +No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth +Novels hurt because they are not true +Plain industry and plodding perseverance are despised +Pseudo-realists +Public wish to be amused rather than edified +Teach what they do not know +Tediously analytical +Unless we prefer a luxury of grief +Vulgarity: bad art to lug it in +Whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think + + + + + +MY LITERARY PASSIONS +[WH#25][whmlp10.txt]3378 + +Account of one's reading is an account of one's life +Affections will not be bidden +Air of looking down on the highest +Authors I must call my masters +Capriciousness of memory: what it will hold and what lose +Contemptible he found our pseudo-equality +Criticism still remains behind all the other literary arts +Dickens is purely democratic +Escaped at night and got into the boy's dreams +Fictions subtle effect for good and for evil on the young +Hardly any sort of bloodshed which I would not pardon +Hospitable gift of making you at home with him +In school there was as little literature then as there is now +Inexperience takes this effect (literary lewdness) for reality +Kindness and gentleness are never out of fashion +Kissing goes by favor, in literature as in life +Lewd literature seems to give a sanction to lewdness in the life +Made many of my acquaintances very tired of my favorite authors +Mustache, which in those days devoted a man to wickedness +My own youth now seems to me rather more alien +My reading gave me no standing among the boys +Never appeals to the principle which sniffs, in his reader +None of the passions are reasoned +Now little notion what it was about, but I love its memory +Prejudice against certain words that I cannot overcome +Rapture of the new convert could not last +Responsibility of finding him all we have been told he is +Secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise +Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality +Should probably have wasted the time if I had not read them +So long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs +Somewhat too studied grace +Speaks it is not with words and blood, but with words and ink +Spit some hapless victim: make him suffer and the reader laugh +Style is the man, and he cannot hide himself in any garb +Trace no discrepancy between reading his plays and seeing them +Tried to like whatever they bade me like +Truth is beyond invention +We did not know that we were poor +We see nothing whole, neither life nor art +What I had not I could hope for without unreason +What we thought ruin, but what was really release +When was love ever reasoned? +Wide leisure of a country village +Words of learned length and thundering sound +World's memory is equally bad for failure and success +Worst came it was not half so bad as what had gone before +You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend who does not joke +You may do a great deal(of work), and not get on + + + + + +SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS +[WH#26][whsse10.txt]3379 + +Aim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readers +Any man's country could get on without him +Begun to fight with want from their cradles +Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog +Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts +Do not want to know about such squalid lives +Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable +Encounter of old friends after the lapse of years +Even a day's rest is more than most people can bear +Eyes fixed steadfastly upon the future +For most people choice is a curse +General worsening of things, familiar after middle life +Happy in the indifference which ignorance breeds in us +Hard to think up anything new +Heart of youth aching for their stoical sorrows +Heighten our suffering by anticipation +If one were poor, one ought to be deserving +Look of challenge, of interrogation, almost of reproof +Malevolent agitators +Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation +Neatness that brings despair +Noble uselessness +Openly depraved by shows of wealth +People have never had ideals, but only moods and fashions +People of wealth and fashion always dissemble their joy +Plagiarism carries inevitable detection with it +Refused to see us as we see ourselves +So many millionaires and so many tramps +Superiority one likes to feel towards the rich and great +Take our pleasures ungraciously +The old and ugly are fastidious as to the looks of others +They are so many and I am so few +Those who work too much and those who rest too much +Unfailing American kindness +Visitors of the more inquisitive sex +We cannot all be hard-working donkeys +We who have neither youth nor beauty should always expect it +Whatever choice you make, you are pretty sure to regret it + + + + + +NOTES OF A VANISHED SUMMER +[WH#27][whvan10.txt]3380 + +Not all the houses are small; some are spacious and ambitious to be of +ugly modern patterns. + +We are still far from the falling leaf; we are hardly come to the +blushing or fading leaf. Here and there an impassioned maple confesses +the autumn. + +The street takes care of itself; the seafaring housekeeping of New +England is not of the insatiable Dutch type which will not spare the +stones of the highway; but within the houses are of almost terrifying +cleanliness. + +Jim was, and still is, and I hope will long be, a cat; but unless one has +lived at Kittery Point, and realized, from observation and experience, +what a leading part cats may play in society, one cannot feel the full +import of this fact. Not only has every house in Kittery its cat, but +every house seems to have its half-dozen cats, large, little, old, and +young; of divers colors, tending mostly to a dark tortoise-shell. + +The day's work on land and sea is then over, and the village leisure, +perched upon fences and stayed against house walls, is of a +picturesqueness which we should prize if we saw it abroad, and which I am +not willing to slight on our own ground. + +The lounging native walk is not the heavy plod taught by the furrow, but +has the lurch and the sway of the deck in it. + + + + + +STANDARD HOUSEHOLD EFFECT CO. +[WH#28][whshe10.txt]3381 + +As soon as she has got a thing she wants, she begins to hate it. + +I have been thinking this matter over very seriously, and I believe +it is going from bad to worse. I have heard praises of the thorough +housekeeping of our grandmothers, but the housekeeping of their +granddaughters is a thousand times more intense. + +At several times in our own lives we have accumulated stuff enough to +furnish two or three house and have paid a pretty stiff house-rent in the +form of storage for the overflow. + +Yes, I see what you mean," I said. This is what one usually says when +one does not quite know what another is driving at; but in this case I +really did know, or thought I did. + + + + +AMERICAN LITERARY CENTERS +[WH#29][whalc10.txt]3382 + +One of the facts which we Americans have a difficulty in making clear to +a rather inattentive world outside is that, while we have apparently a +literature of our own, we have no literary centre. We have so much +literature that from time to time it seems even to us we must have a +literary centre. We say to ourselves, with a good deal of logic, Where +there is so much smoke there must be some fire, or at least a fireplace. + +It is not quality that is wanting, but perhaps it is the quantity of the +quality; there is leaven, but not for so large a lump. It may be that +New York is going to be our literary centre, as London is the literary +centre of England, by gathering into itself all our writing talent, but +it has by no means done this yet. + +Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the +mouths of our eight-inch guns. + + + + + +SPANISH PRISONERS OF WAR +[WH#30][whspw10.txt]3383 + +If we had a grief with the Spanish government, and if it was so mortal we +must do murder for it, we might have sent a joint committee of the House +and Senate, and, with the improved means of assassination which modern +science has put at our command, killed off the Spanish cabinet, and even +the queen--mother and the little king. This would have been consequent, +logical, and in a sort reasonable; but to butcher and capture a lot of +wretched Spanish peasants and fishermen, hapless conscripts to whom +personally and nationally we were as so many men in the moon, was that +melancholy and humiliating necessity of war which makes it homicide in +which there is not even the saving grace of hate, or the excuse of hot +blood. + +That stupid and atrocious hate towards the public enemy which abominable +newspapers and politicians had tried to breed in the popular mind. + +How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? + + + + + +ANOMALIES OF THE SHORT STORY +[WH#31][whass10.txt]3384 + +One of the most amusing questions concerning the short story is why a +form which is singly so attractive that every one likes to read a short +story when he finds it alone is collectively so repellent as it is said +to be. Before now I have imagined the case to be somewhat the same as +that of a number of pleasant people who are most acceptable as separate +householders, but who lose caste and cease to be desirable acquaintances +when gathered into a boarding-house. + +I wish that the general reader, with whom the fault lies, could be made +to say why, if he likes one short story by itself and four short stories +in a magazine, he does not like, or will not have, a dozen short stories +in a book. This was the baffling question which I began with and which I +find myself forced to end with, after all the light I have thrown upon +the subject. + + + + + +LAST DAYS IN A DUTCH HOTEL +[WH#32][whldh10.txt]3385 + +But in Europe everything is permanent, and in America everything is +provisional. This is the great distinction which, if always kept in +mind, will save a great deal of idle astonishment. It is in nothing more +apparent than in the preparation here at Scheveningen for centuries of +summer visitors, while at our Long Island hotel there was a losing bet on +a scant generation of them. When it seemed likely that it might be a +winning bet the sand was planked there in front of the hotel to the sea +with spruce boards. It was very handsomely planked, but it was never +afterwards touched, apparently, for any manner of repairs. Here, for +half a mile the dune on which the hotel stands is shored up with massive +masonry, and bricked for carriages, and tiled for foot-passengers; and it +is all kept as clean as if wheel or foot had never passed over it. I am +sure that there is not a broken brick or a broken tile in the whole +length or breadth of it. But the hotel here is not a bet; it is a +business. It has come to stay; and on Long Island it had come to see how +it would like it. + + + + + +THE YOUNG CONTRIBUTOR +[WH#33][whtyc10.txt]3386 + +An artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does +not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never +a verse made or a picture seen. + +We hear much of drudgery, but any sort of work that is slighted becomes +drudgery; poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, acting, architecture, if +you do not do your best by them, turn to drudgery sore as digging +ditches, hewing wood, or drawing water; and these, by the same blessings +of God, become arts if they are done with conscience and the sense of +beauty. + +At once put aside all anxiety about style; that is a thing that will take +care of itself; it will be added unto him if he really has something to +say; for style is only a man's way of saying a thing. + +If I were to sin my sins over again, I think I should sin a little more +on the side of candid severity. I am sure I should do more good in that +way, and I am sure that when I used to dissemble my real mind I did harm +to those whose feelings I wished to spare. + +The trouble with success is that it is apt to leave life behind, or +apart. The successful writer especially is in danger of becoming +isolated from the realities that nurtured in him the strength to win +success. + +I think that every author who is honest with himself must own that his +work would be twice as good if it were done twice. + + + + + +CONFESSIONS OF SUMMER COLONIST +[WH#34][whcsc10.txt]3387 + +At this function, which is our chief social event, it is 'de rigueur' for +the men not to dress, and they come in any sort of sack or jacket or +cutaway, letting the ladies make up the pomps which they forego. + +They say frankly that the summer folks have no idea how pleasant it is +when they are gone. + +Well, we calculate to do our work," he added, with an accent which +sufficiently implied that their consciences needed no bossing in the +performance. + + + + + +MAN OF LETTERS IN BUSINESS +[WH#35][whmlb10.txt]3388 + +Artist has seasons, as trees, when he cannot blossom +Book that they are content to know at second hand +Business to take advantage of his necessity +Competition has deformed human nature +Conditions of hucksters imposed upon poets +Fate of a book is in the hands of the women +God of chance leads them into temptation and adversity +Historian, who is a kind of inferior realist +I do not think any man ought to live by an art +If he has not enjoyed writing no one will enjoy reading +Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success +Literature beautiful only through the intelligence +Literature has no objective value +Literature is Business as well as Art +Man is strange to himself as long as he lives +Men read the newspapers, but our women read the books +Most journalists would have been literary men if they could +Never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it +No rose blooms right along +Our huckstering civilization +Public whose taste is so crude that they cannot enjoy the best +Rogues in every walk of life +There is small love of pure literature +Two branches of the novelist's trade: Novelist and Historian +Work not truly priced in money cannot be truly paid in money + + + + +LITERATURE AND LIFE +[WH#36][whlal10.txt]3389 + +Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success. + +Literature is beautiful only through the intelligence. + +Public whose taste is so crude that they cannot enjoy the best. + +They say frankly that the summer folks have no idea how pleasant it is +when they are gone. + +The trouble with success is that it is apt to leave life behind, or +apart. The successful writer especially is in danger of becoming +isolated from the realities that nurtured in him the strength to win +success. + +I think that every author who is honest with himself must own that his +work would be twice as good if it were done twice. + +At once put aside all anxiety about style; that is a thing that will take +care of itself; it will be added unto him if he really has something to +say; for style is only a man's way of saying a thing. + +If I were to sin my sins over again, I think I should sin a little more +on the side of candid severity. I am sure I should do more good in that +way, and I am sure that when I used to dissemble my real mind I did harm +to those whose feelings I wished to spare. + + + + + +MY MARK TWAIN +[WH#37][whmmt10.txt]3390 + +Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthful +Amiable perception, and yet with a sort of remote absence +But now I remember that he gets twenty dollars a month +Christianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditions +Church: "Oh yes, I go! It 'most kills me, but I go" +Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature +Despair broke in laughter +Despised the avoidance of repetitions out of fear of tautology +Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly +Flowers with which we garland our despair in that pitiless hour +He was a youth to the end of his days +Heroic lies +His coming almost killed her, but it was worth it +Honest men are few when it comes to themselves +It was mighty pretty, as Pepys would say +Left him to do what the cat might +Lie, of course, and did to save others from grief or harm +Liked to find out good things and great things for himself +Livy Clemens: the loveliest person I have ever seen +Marriages are what the parties to them alone really know +Mind and soul were with those who do the hard work of the world +Most desouthernized Southerner I ever knew +Most serious, the most humane, the most conscientious of men +Nearly nothing as chaos could be +Never saw a dead man whom he did not envy +Never saw a man more regardful of negroes +No man ever yet told the truth about himself +No man more perfectly sensed and more entirely abhorred slavery +Not possible for Clemens to write like anybody else +Ought not to call coarse without calling one's self prudish +Polite learning hesitated his praise +Praised it enough to satisfy the author +Reparation due from every white to every black man +Shackles of belief worn so long +Stupidly truthful +The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it +Used to ingratitude from those he helped +Vacuous vulgarity +Walter-Scotticized, pseudo-chivalry of the Southern ideal +We have never ended before, and we do not see how we can end +Livy: Well, if you are to be lost, I want to be lost with you +What he had done he owned to, good, bad, or indifferent +Whether every human motive was not selfish +"Wonder why we hate the past so?--"It's so damned humiliating!" + + + + + +A BELATED GUEST +[WH#38][whabg10.txt]3391 + +Always sumptuously providing out of his destitution +Could only by chance be caught in earnest about anything +Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer +Death's vague conjectures to the broken expectations of life +Dollars were of so much farther flight than now +Enjoying whatever was amusing in the disadvantage to himself +Express the appreciation of another's fit word +Gay laugh comes across the abysm of the years +His plays were too bad for the stage, or else too good for it +Insatiable English fancy for the wild America no longer there +Long breath was not his; he could not write a novel +Mellow cordial of a voice that was like no other +Now death has come to join its vague conjectures +Offers mortifyingly mean, and others insultingly vague +Only one concerned who was quite unconcerned +So refined, after the gigantic coarseness of California +Wrote them first and last in the spirit of Dickens + + + + + +CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS +[WH#39][whcbn10.txt]3392 + +Cold-slaw +Collective opacity +Felt that this was my misfortune more than my fault +Found life was not all poetry +He had no time to make money +Intellectual poseurs +NYC, a city where money counts for more and goes for less +One could be openly poor in Cambridge without open shame +Put your finger on the present moment and enjoy it +Standards were their own, and they were satisfied with them +Wonderful to me how it should remain so unintelligible + + + + + +STUDIES OF LOWELL +[WH#40][whlow10.txt]3393 + +What I have cloudily before me is the vision of a very lofty and simple +soul, perplexed, and as it were surprised and even dismayed at the +complexity of the effects from motives so single in it, but escaping +always to a clear expression of what was noblest and loveliest in itself +at the supreme moments, in the divine exigencies. I believe neither in +heroes nor in saints; but I believe in great and good men, for I have +known them, and among such men Lowell was of the richest nature I have +known. + +Writing at the distance of Europe, and with America in the perspective +which the alien environment clouded, he spoke of her as "The Land of +Broken Promise." It was a splendid reproach, but perhaps too dramatic to +bear the full test of analysis, and yet it had the truth in it, and +might, I think, have usefully stood, to the end of making people think. +Undoubtedly it expressed his sense of the case, and in the same measure +it would now express that of many who love their country most among us. +It is well to hold one's country to her promises, and if there are any +who think she is forgetting them it is their duty to say so, even to the +point of bitter accusation. + +As I have suggested in my own case, it did not matter much whether you +brought anything to the feast or not. If he liked you he liked being +with you, not for what he got, but for what he gave. He was fond of one +man whom I recall as the most silent man I ever met. I never heard him +say anything, not even a dull thing, but Lowell delighted in him, and +would have you believe that he was full of quaint humor. + + + + + +THE WHITE MR. LONGFELLOW +[WH#41][whlng10.txt]3394 + +In Cambridge the houses to be let were few, and such as there were fell +either below our pride or rose above our purse. I wish I might tell how +at last we bought a house; we had no money, but we were rich in friends, +who are still alive to shrink from the story of their constant faith in a +financial future which we sometimes doubted, and who backed their +credulity with their credit. It is sufficient for the present record, +which professes to be strictly literary, to notify the fact that on the +first day of May, 1866, we went out to Cambridge and began to live in a +house which we owned in fee if not in deed, and which was none the less +valuable for being covered with mortgages. Physically, it was a +carpenter's box, of a sort which is readily imagined by the Anglo- +American genius for ugliness. + +Any sort of diversion was hailed, and once Appleton proposed that +Longfellow should show us his wine-cellar. He took up the candle burning +on the table for the cigars, and led the way into the basement of the +beautiful old Colonial mansion, doubly memorable as Washington's +headquarters while he was in Cambridge, and as the home of Longfellow for +so many years. The taper cast just the right gleams on the darkness, +bringing into relief the massive piers of brick, and the solid walls of +stone, which gave the cellar the effect of a casemate in some fortress, +and leaving the corners and distances to a romantic gloom. This basement +was a work of the days when men built more heavily if not more +substantially than now. + +The ill-will that seemed nearly always to go with adverse criticism made +him distrust criticism, and the discomfort which mistaken or blundering +praise gives probably made him shy of all criticism. + +The memory will not be ruled as to what it shall bind and what it shall +loose. + +Somewhat shy of his fellow-men, as the scholar seems always to be. + + + + + +OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES +[WH#42][whowh10.txt]3395 + +Appeal, which he had come to recognize as invasive +Could make us feel that our faults were other people's +Hard of hearing on one side. But it isn't deafness! +Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Autocrat clashed upon homeopathy +He was not bored because he would not be +He was not constructive; he was essentially observant +His readers trusted and loved him +Men's lives ended where they began, in the keeping of women +Not a man who cared to transcend; he liked bounds +Not much patience with the unmanly craving for sympathy +Old man's disposition to speak of his infirmities +Old man's tendency to revert to the past +Reformers, who are so often tedious and ridiculous +Secret of the man who is universally interesting +Sought the things that he could agree with you upon +Spare his years the fatigue of recalling your identity +Study in a corner by the porch +Those who have sorrowed deepest will understand this best +Times when a man's city was a man's country +Work gives the impression of an uncommon continuity + + + + + +LITERARY BOSTON +[WH#43][whbos10.txt]3396 + +Dawn upon him through a cloud of other half remembered faces +Ethical sense, not the aesthetical sense +Few men last over from one reform to another +Generous lover of all that was excellent in literature +Got out of it all the fun there was in it +Greeting of great impersonal cordiality +Grieving that there could be such ire in heavenly minds +His remembrance absolutely ceased with an event +Looked as if Destiny had sat upon it +Man who may any moment be out of work is industrially a slave +Pathos of revolt from the colorless rigidities +Plain-speaking or Rude Speaking +Pointed the moral in all they did +Sometimes they sacrificed the song to the sermon +Tired themselves out in trying to catch up with him +True to an ideal of life rather than to life itself +Wasted face, and his gay eyes had the death-look +When to be an agnostic was to be almost an outcast + + + + + +ROUNDABOUT TO BOSTON +[WH#44][whrtb10.txt]3397 + +I could only report to him from time to time the unyielding attitude of +the Civil Tribunal, and at last he consented, as he wrote, "to act +officiously, not officially, in the matter," and the hapless claimant got +what was left of his estate. + +I was notified that there was a sum to my credit in the bank, I said, +with the confidence I have nearly always felt when wrong, that I had no +money there. The proof of my error was sent me in a check. + +It is one of the hard conditions of this state that while we can mostly +make out to let people taste the last drop of bitterness and ill-will +that is in us, our love and gratitude are only semi-articulate at the +best, and usually altogether tongue-tied. + +His honesty made all men trust him when they doubted his opinions; his +good sense made them doubt their own opinions, when they had as little +question of their own honesty. + +His whole life taught the lesson that the world is well lost whenever the +world is wrong; but never, I think, did any life teach this so sweetly, +so winningly. The wrong world itself might have been entreated by him to +be right, for he was one of the few reformers who have not in some +measure mixed their love of man with hate of men; his quarrel was with +error, and not with the persons who were in it. + +He was a believer in the cause of women's rights, which has no +picturesqueness, and which chiefly appeals to the sense of humor in the +men who never dreamt of laughing at him. + + + + + +FIRST VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND +[WH#45][whvne10.txt]3398 + +Abstract, the air-drawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts +Became gratefully strange +Best talkers are willing that you should talk if you like +Could easily believe now that it was some one else who saw it +Death of the joy that ought to come from work +Did not feel the effect I would so willingly have experienced +Dinner was at the old-fashioned Boston hour of two +Either to deny the substance of things unseen, or to affirm it +Espoused the theory of Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare +Feigned the gratitude which I could see that he expected +Forbearance of a wise man content to bide his time +Hate of hate, The scorn of scorn, The love of love +Hollowness, the hopelessness, the unworthiness of life +I did not know, and I hated to ask +If he was half as bad, he would have been too bad to be +In the South there was nothing but a mistaken social ideal +Incredible in their insipidity +Industrial slavery +Love of freedom and the hope of justice +Man who had so much of the boy in him +Met with kindness, if not honor +Napoleonic height which spiritually overtops the Alps +Never paid in anything but hopes of paying +Not quite himself till he had made you aware of his quality +Odious hilarity, without meaning and without remission +Praised extravagantly, and in the wrong place +Seen through the wrong end of the telescope +Things common to all, however peculiar in each +Wit that tries its teeth upon everything + + + + + +Of Literature--Entire +[WH#46][whlfr10.txt]3399 + +Authorities +Browbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrust +Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped +Concerning popularity as a test of merit in a book +Critical vanity and self-righteousness +Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature +Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust +Fact that it is hash many times warmed over reassures them +Forbear the excesses of analysis +Glance of the common eye, is and always was the best light +Greatest classics are sometimes not at all great +Imitators of one another than of nature +Languages, while they live, are perpetually changing +Let fiction cease to lie about life +Long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition +Made them talk as seldom man and never woman talked +No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth +Novels hurt because they are not true +Plain industry and plodding perseverance are despised +Pseudo-realists +Public wish to be amused rather than edified +Teach what they do not know +Tediously analytical +To break new ground +Unless we prefer a luxury of grief +Vulgarity: bad art to lug it in +What makes a better fashion change for a worse +Whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think + + + + + +RAGGED LADY, V1 +[WH#51][wh1rl10.txt]3405 + +All in all to each other +Chained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his own +Composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor +Hopeful apathy in his face +Inexhaustible flow of statement, conjecture and misgiving +Kept her talking vacuities when her heart was full +Led a life of public seclusion +Luxury of helplessness +New England necessity of blaming some one +No object in life except to deprive it of all object +Provisional reprehension of possible shiftlessness +Seldom talked, but there came times when he would'nt even listen +Tone was a snuffle expressive of deep-seated affliction +Under a fire of conjecture and asseveration +Wishes of a mistress who did not know what she wanted + + + + + +RAGGED LADY, V2 +[WH#52][wh2rl10.txt]3406 + +Didn't reason about their beliefs, but only argued +Dull, cold self-absorption +Gift of waiting for things to happen +He's so resting +Life alone is credible to the young +Morbid egotism +Motives lie nearer the surface than most people commonly pretend +Real artistocracy is above social prejudice +Singleness of a nature that was all pose +Submitted, as people always do with the trials of others +Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness +Understood when I've said something that doesn't mean anything +We change whether we ought, or not +When she's really sick, she's better +Women don't seem to belong very much to themselves +You can't go back to anything +You were not afraid, and you were not bold; you were just right + + + + + +APRIL HOPES +[WH#50][whapr10.txt]3404 + +Adroitness in flattery is not necessary for its successful use +Amiably satirical +Beginning to grow old with touching courage +Buzz of activities and pretences +Effort to do and say exactly the truth, and to find it out +Habit of saying some friendly lying thing +Incoherencies of people meeting after a long time +Little knot of conscience between her pretty eyebrows +Lived a thousand little lies every day +Mind of a man is the court of final appeal for the wisest women +Outer integument of pretence +Passive elegance which only ancestral uselessness can give +Satirical smile with which men witness the effusion of women +She liked to get all she could out of her emotions +Worldlier than the world +You marry a man's future as well as his past + + + + + +ENTIRE PG EDITION OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS +[WH#47][whewk10.txt]3400 + +Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthful +Abstract, the airdrawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts +Account of one's reading is an account of one's life +Adroitness in flattery is not necessary for its successful use +Affections will not be bidden +Aim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readers +Air of looking down on the highest +All in all to each other +Always sumptuously providing out of his destitution +Amiable perception, and yet with a sort of remote absence +Amiably satirical +Any man's country could get on without him +Appeal, which he had come to recognize as invasive +Artist has seasons, as trees, when he cannot blossom +Authorities +Authors I must call my masters +Became gratefully strange +Beginning to grow old with touching courage +Begun to fight with want from their cradles +Best talkers are willing that you should talk if you like +Boldest man is commonly a little behind a timid woman +Book that they are content to know at second hand +Browbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrust +Business to take advantage of his necessity +But now I remember that he gets twenty dollars a month +Buzz of activities and pretences +Capriciousness of memory: what it will hold and what lose +Chained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his own +Christianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditions +Church: "Oh yes, I go! It 'most kills me, but I go" +Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature +Cold-slaw +Collective opacity +Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped +Competition has deformed human nature +Composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor +Concerning popularity as a test of merit in a book +Conditions of hucksters imposed upon poets +Contemptible he found our pseudo-equality +Could only by chance be caught in earnest about anything +Could make us feel that our faults were other people's +Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog +Could easily believe now that it was some one else who saw it +Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer +Crimson which stained the tops and steeps of snow +Crimson torch of a maple, kindled before its time +Critical vanity and self-righteousness +Criticism still remains behind all the other literary arts +Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature +Dawn upon him through a cloud of other half remembered faces +Death of the joy that ought to come from work +Death's vague conjectures to the broken expectations of life +Despair broke in laughter +Despised the avoidance of repetitions out of fear of tautology +Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust +Dickens is purely democratic +Did not feel the effect I would so willingly have experienced +Didn't reason about their beliefs, but only argued +Dinner was at the old-fashioned Boston hour of two +Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts +Disposition to use his friends +Do not want to know about such squalid lives +Dollars were of so much farther flight than now +Dull, cold self-absorption +Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable +Effort to do and say exactly the truth, and to find it out +Either to deny the substance of things unseen, or to affirm it +Encounter of old friends after the lapse of years +Enjoying whatever was amusing in the disadvantage to himself +Errors of a weak man, which were usually the basest +Escaped at night and got into the boy's dreams +Espoused the theory of Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare +Ethical sense, not the aesthetical sense +Even a day's rest is more than most people can bear +Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly +Exchanging inaudible banalities +Express the appreciation of another's fit word +Eyes fixed steadfastly upon the future +Fact that it is hash many times warmed over that reassures them +Fate of a book is in the hands of the women +Fear of asking too much and the folly of asking too little +Feigned the gratitude which I could see that he expected +Felt that this was my misfortune more than my fault +Few men last over from one reform to another +Fictions subtle effect for good and for evil on the young +Flowers with which we garland our despair in that pitiless hour +For most people choice is a curse +Forbear the excesses of analysis +Forbearance of a wise man content to bide his time +Found life was not all poetry +Gay laugh comes across the abysm of the years +General worsening of things, familiar after middle life +Generous lover of all that was excellent in literature +Gift of waiting for things to happen +Glance of the common eye, is and always was the best light +God of chance leads them into temptation and adversity +Got out of it all the fun there was in it +Government is best which governs least +Greatest classics are sometimes not at all great +Greeting of great impersonal cordiality +Grieving that there could be such ire in heavenly minds +Habit of saying some friendly lying thing +Happy in the indifference which ignorance breeds in us +Hard to think up anything new +Hard of hearing on one side. But it isn't deafness! +Hardly any sort of bloodshed which I would not pardon +Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Autocrat clashed upon homeopathy +Hate of hate, The scorn of scorn, The love of love +He was a youth to the end of his days +He was not bored because he would not be +He had no time to make money +He was not constructive; he was essentially observant +He might walk home with her if he would not seem to do so +He's so resting +He's the same kind of a man that he was a boy +Heart of youth aching for their stoical sorrows +Heighten our suffering by anticipation +Heroic lies +His readers trusted and loved him +His plays were too bad for the stage, or else too good for it +His coming almost killed her, but it was worth it +His remembrance absolutely ceased with an event +Historian, who is a kind of inferior realist +Holiday literature +Hollow hilarities which people use to mask their indifference +Hollowness, the hopelessness, the unworthiness of life +Honest men are few when it comes to themselves +Honesty is difficult +Hopeful apathy in his face +Hospitable gift of making you at home with him +I do not think any man ought to live by an art +I did not know, and I hated to ask +If one were poor, one ought to be deserving +If he was half as bad, he would have been too bad to be +If one must, it ought to be champagne +If he has not enjoyed writing no one will enjoy reading +Imitators of one another than of nature +Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success +In the South there was nothing but a mistaken social ideal +In school there was as little literature then as there is now +Incoherencies of people meeting after a long time +Incredible in their insipidity +Industrial slavery +Inexhaustible flow of statement, conjecture and misgiving +Inexperience takes this effect (literary lewdness) for reality +Insatiable English fancy for the wild America no longer there +Insensate pride that mothers have in their children's faults +Intellectual poseurs +Intent upon some point in the future +It was mighty pretty, as Pepys would say +Joyful shame of children who have escaped punishment +Kept her talking vacuities when her heart was full +Kindness and gentleness are never out of fashion +Kissing goes by favor, in literature as in life +Languages, while they live, are perpetually changing +Led a life of public seclusion +Left him to do what the cat might +Let fiction cease to lie about life +Lewd literature seems to give a sanction to lewdness in the life +Lie, of course, and did to save others from grief or harm +Life alone is credible to the young +Liked to find out good things and great things for himself +Literature beautiful only through the intelligence +Literature is Business as well as Art +Literature has no objective value +Little knot of conscience between her pretty eyebrows +Lived a thousand little lies every day +Livy: Well, if you are to be lost, I want to be lost with you +Livy Clemens: the loveliest person I have ever seen +Long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition +Long breath was not his; he could not write a novel +Look of challenge, of interrogation, almost of reproof +Looked as if Destiny had sat upon it +Love of freedom and the hope of justice +Luxury of helplessness +Made many of my acquaintances very tired of my favorite authors +Made them talk as seldom man and never woman talked +Malevolent agitators +Man is strange to himself as long as he lives +Man who had so much of the boy in him +Man who may any moment be out of work is industrially a slave +Marriages are what the parties to them alone really know +Married Man: after the first start-off he don't try +Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation +Mellow cordial of a voice that was like no other +Men read the newspapers, but our women read the books +Men's lives ended where they began, in the keeping of women +Met with kindness, if not honor +Mind and soul were with those who do the hard work of the world +Mind of a man is the court of final appeal for the wisest women +Morbid egotism +Most desouthernized Southerner I ever knew +Most journalists would have been literary men if they could +Most serious, the most humane, the most conscientious of men +Motives lie nearer the surface than most people commonly pretend +Mustache, which in those days devoted a man to wickedness +My own youth now seems to me rather more alien +My reading gave me no standing among the boys +Napoleonic height which spiritually overtops the Alps +Nearly nothing as chaos could be +Neatness that brings despair +Never saw a man more regardful of negroes +Never paid in anything but hopes of paying +Never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it +Never appeals to the principle which sniffs, in his reader +Never saw a dead man whom he did not envy +New England necessity of blaming some one +No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth +No man more perfectly sensed and more entirely abhorred slavery +No man ever yet told the truth about himself +No rose blooms right along +No two men see the same star +No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth +No object in life except to deprive it of all object +Noble uselessness +None of the passions are reasoned +Not quite himself till he had made you aware of his quality +Not possible for Clemens to write like anybody else +Not much patience with the unmanly craving for sympathy +Not a man who cared to transcend; he liked bounds +Nothing in the way of sport, as people commonly understand it +Novels hurt because they are not true +Now little notion what it was about, but I love its memory +Now death has come to join its vague conjectures +NYC, a city where money counts for more and goes for less +Odious hilarity, without meaning and without remission +Offers mortifyingly mean, and others insultingly vague +Old man's disposition to speak of his infirmities +Old man's tendency to revert to the past +One could be openly poor in Cambridge without open shame +Only one concerned who was quite unconcerned +Openly depraved by shows of wealth +Ought not to call coarse without calling one's self prudish +Our huckstering civilization +Outer integument of pretence +Passive elegance which only ancestral uselessness can give +Pathetic hopefulness +Pathos of revolt from the colorless rigidities +People whom we think unequal to their good fortune +People of wealth and fashion always dissemble their joy +People have never had ideals, but only moods and fashions +Picture which, he said to himself, no one would believe in +Plagiarism carries inevitable detection with it +Plain-speaking or Rude Speaking +Plain industry and plodding perseverance are despised +Pointed the moral in all they did +Polite learning hesitated his praise +Praised it enough to satisfy the author +Praised extravagantly, and in the wrong place +Prejudice against certain words that I cannot overcome +Provisional reprehension of possible shiftlessness +Pseudo-realists +Public wish to be amused rather than edified +Public whose taste is so crude that they cannot enjoy the best +Put your finger on the present moment and enjoy it +Quiet but rather dull look of people slightly deaf +Rapture of the new convert could not last +Real artistocracy is above social prejudice +Reformers, who are so often tedious and ridiculous +Refused to see us as we see ourselves +Reparation due from every white to every black man +Responsibility of finding him all we have been told he is +Rogues in every walk of life +Satirical smile with which men witness the effusion of women +Secret of the man who is universally interesting +Secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise +Seen through the wrong end of the telescope +Seldom talked, but there came times when he would'nt even listen +Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality +Shackles of belief worn so long +She liked to get all she could out of her emotions +Should probably have wasted the time if I had not read them +Singleness of a nature that was all pose +So long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs +So refined, after the gigantic coarseness of California +So many millionaires and so many tramps +Society interested in a woman's past, not her future +Sometimes they sacrificed the song to the sermon +Somewhat shy of his fellow-men, as the scholar seems always to be. +Somewhat too studied grace +Sought the things that he could agree with you upon +Spare his years the fatigue of recalling your identity +Speaks it is not with words and blood, but with words and ink +Spit some hapless victim: make him suffer and the reader laugh +Standards were their own, and they were satisfied with them +Study in a corner by the porch +Stupefied by a life of unalloyed prosperity and propriety +Stupidly truthful +Style is the man, and he cannot hide himself in any garb +Submitted, as people always do with the trials of others +Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness +Superiority one likes to feel towards the rich and great +Take our pleasures ungraciously +Teach what they do not know +Tediously analytical +The old and ugly are fastidious as to the looks of others +The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it +The great trouble is for the man to be honest with her +There is small love of pure literature +They are so many and I am so few +Things common to all, however peculiar in each +Those who work too much and those who rest too much +Those who have sorrowed deepest will understand this best +Times when a man's city was a man's country +Tired themselves out in trying to catch up with him +To break new ground +To be exemplary is as dangerous as to be complimentary +Tone was a snuffle expressive of deep-seated affliction +Trace no discrepancy between reading his plays and seeing them +Tried to like whatever they bade me like +True to an ideal of life rather than to life itself +Truth is beyond invention +Two branches of the novelist's trade: Novelist and Historian +Under a fire of conjecture and asseveration +Understood when I've said something that doesn't mean anything +Unfailing American kindness +Unless we prefer a luxury of grief +Used to ingratitude from those he helped +Vacuous vulgarity +Visitors of the more inquisitive sex +Vulgarity: bad art to lug it in +Walter-Scotticized, pseudo-chivalry of the Southern ideal +Want something hard, don't you know; but I want it to be easy +Wasted face, and his gay eyes had the death-look +We have never ended before, and we do not see how we can end +We change whether we ought, or not +We see nothing whole, neither life nor art +We who have neither youth nor beauty should always expect it +We cannot all be hard-working donkeys +We did not know that we were poor +We're company enough for ourselves +What I had not I could hope for without unreason +What he had done he owned to, good, bad, or indifferent +What makes a better fashion change for a worse +What we thought ruin, but what was really release +Whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think +Whatever choice you make, you are pretty sure to regret it +When to be an agnostic was to be almost an outcast +When she's really sick, she's better +When was love ever reasoned? +Whether every human motive was not selfish +Wide leisure of a country village +Wishes of a mistress who did not know what she wanted +Wit that tries its teeth upon everything +With all her insight, to have very little artistic sense +Women don't seem to belong very much to themselves +Women talked their follies and men acted theirs +Wonder why we hate the past so?--"It's so damned humiliating!" +Wonderful to me how it should remain so unintelligible +Words of learned length and thundering sound +Work gives the impression of an uncommon continuity +Work not truly priced in money cannot be truly paid in money +World made up of two kinds of people +World seems to always come out at the same hole it went in at! +World's memory is equally bad for failure and success +Worldlier than the world +Worst came it was not half so bad as what had gone before +Wrote them first and last in the spirit of Dickens +You can't go back to anything +You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend who does not joke +You may do a great deal(of work), and not get on +You marry a man's future as well as his past +You were not afraid, and you were not bold; you were just right + + + + + +End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Quotations of William Dean Howells + |