Quotes And Images From the Works of William Dean Howells
Quotes And Images From the Works of William Dean Howells
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D. HOWELLS.
THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Absolutely, so positively, so almostaggressively truthful Account of one's reading is an account ofone's life Affections will not be bidden Beginning to grow old with touching courage Book that they are content to know atsecond hand Christianity had done nothing to improve moralsand conditions Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln ofour literature Comfort from the thought that most things cannotbe helped Contemptible he found our pseudo-equa...lity Critical vanity and self-righteousness Critics are in no sense the legislators ofliterature Despair broke in laughter Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust Didn't reason about their beliefs, butonly argued Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts Even a day's rest is more than most peoplecan bear Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly Exchanging inaudible banalities Fear of asking too much and the folly of askingtoo little For most people choice is a curse Forbear the excesses of analysis Gift of waiting for things to happen Got out of it all the fun there was in it Government is best which governs least Habit of saying some friendly lying thing He was not bored because he would not be He had no time to make money He's so resting He's the same kind of a man that he was a boy Heighten our suffering by anticipation Heroic lies His readers trusted and loved him I do not think any man ought to live by an art If one were poor, one ought to be deserving If he was half as bad, he would have been toobad to be Incredible in their insipidity Industrial slavery Lewd literature seems to give a sanction tolewdness in the life Lie, of course, and did to save others fromgrief or harm Life alone is credible to the young Livy: Well, if you are to be lost, I want to belost with you Livy Clemens: the loveliest person I haveever seen Luxury of helplessness Married Man: after the first start-off hedon't try Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation Morbid egotism My reading gave me no standing among the boys Neatness that brings despair Never paid in anything but hopes of paying Never saw a dead man whom he did not envy New England necessity of blaming some one None of the passions are reasoned NYC, a city where money counts for more andgoes for less Old man's disposition to speak of hisinfirmities Pathetic hopefulness Plain-speaking or Rude Speaking Praised it enough to satisfy the author Pseudo-realists Public wish to be amused rather than edified Real artistocracy is above social prejudice Reformers, who are so often tedious andridiculous Refused to see us as we see ourselves Shackles of belief worn so long She liked to get all she could out of heremotions Society interested in a woman's past, not her future Teach what they do not know Somewhat too studied grace Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness Secretly admires the splendors he affects todespise Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocriticalprovinciality Submitted, as people always do with the trialsof others Tediously analytical They are so many and I am so few Truth is beyond invention Used to ingratitude from those he helped Vacuous vulgarity We did not know that we were poor We're company enough for ourselves What we thought ruin, but what was reallyrelease When she's really sick, she's better Wonder why we hate the past so?--"It's sodamned humiliating!" You can't go back to anything You may do a great deal (of work), and not get on You marry a man's future as well as his past You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend whodoes not joke COMPLETE QUOTATIONS Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthfulAbstract, the airdrawn, afflicted me like physical discomfortsAccount of one's reading is an account of one's lifeAdroitness in flattery is not necessary for its successful useAffections will not be biddenAim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readersAir of looking down on the highestAll in all to each otherAlways sumptuously providing out of his destitutionAmiable perception, and yet with a sort of remote absenceAmiably satiricalAny man's country could get on without himAppeal, which he had come to recognize as invasiveArtist has seasons, as trees, when he cannot blossomAuthoritiesAuthors I must call my mastersBecame gratefully strangeBeginning to grow old with touching courageBegun to fight with want from their cradlesBest talkers are willing that you should talk if you likeBoldest man is commonly a little behind a timid womanBook that they are content to know at second handBrowbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrustBusiness to take advantage of his necessityBut now I remember that he gets twenty dollars a monthBuzz of activities and pretencesCapriciousness of memory: what it will hold and what loseChained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his ownChristianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditionsChurch: "Oh yes, I go!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
D. HOWELLS.
THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Absolutely, so positively, so almostaggressively truthful Account of one's reading is an account ofone's life Affections will not be bidden Beginning to grow old with touching courage Book that they are content to know atsecond hand Christianity had done nothing to improve moralsand conditions Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln ofour literature Comfort from the thought that most things cannotbe helped Contemptible he found our pseudo-equa...lity Critical vanity and self-righteousness Critics are in no sense the legislators ofliterature Despair broke in laughter Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust Didn't reason about their beliefs, butonly argued Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts Even a day's rest is more than most peoplecan bear Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly Exchanging inaudible banalities Fear of asking too much and the folly of askingtoo little For most people choice is a curse Forbear the excesses of analysis Gift of waiting for things to happen Got out of it all the fun there was in it Government is best which governs least Habit of saying some friendly lying thing He was not bored because he would not be He had no time to make money He's so resting He's the same kind of a man that he was a boy Heighten our suffering by anticipation Heroic lies His readers trusted and loved him I do not think any man ought to live by an art If one were poor, one ought to be deserving If he was half as bad, he would have been toobad to be Incredible in their insipidity Industrial slavery Lewd literature seems to give a sanction tolewdness in the life Lie, of course, and did to save others fromgrief or harm Life alone is credible to the young Livy: Well, if you are to be lost, I want to belost with you Livy Clemens: the loveliest person I haveever seen Luxury of helplessness Married Man: after the first start-off hedon't try Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation Morbid egotism My reading gave me no standing among the boys Neatness that brings despair Never paid in anything but hopes of paying Never saw a dead man whom he did not envy New England necessity of blaming some one None of the passions are reasoned NYC, a city where money counts for more andgoes for less Old man's disposition to speak of hisinfirmities Pathetic hopefulness Plain-speaking or Rude Speaking Praised it enough to satisfy the author Pseudo-realists Public wish to be amused rather than edified Real artistocracy is above social prejudice Reformers, who are so often tedious andridiculous Refused to see us as we see ourselves Shackles of belief worn so long She liked to get all she could out of heremotions Society interested in a woman's past, not her future Teach what they do not know Somewhat too studied grace Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness Secretly admires the splendors he affects todespise Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocriticalprovinciality Submitted, as people always do with the trialsof others Tediously analytical They are so many and I am so few Truth is beyond invention Used to ingratitude from those he helped Vacuous vulgarity We did not know that we were poor We're company enough for ourselves What we thought ruin, but what was reallyrelease When she's really sick, she's better Wonder why we hate the past so?--"It's sodamned humiliating!" You can't go back to anything You may do a great deal (of work), and not get on You marry a man's future as well as his past You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend whodoes not joke COMPLETE QUOTATIONS Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthfulAbstract, the airdrawn, afflicted me like physical discomfortsAccount of one's reading is an account of one's lifeAdroitness in flattery is not necessary for its successful useAffections will not be biddenAim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readersAir of looking down on the highestAll in all to each otherAlways sumptuously providing out of his destitutionAmiable perception, and yet with a sort of remote absenceAmiably satiricalAny man's country could get on without himAppeal, which he had come to recognize as invasiveArtist has seasons, as trees, when he cannot blossomAuthoritiesAuthors I must call my mastersBecame gratefully strangeBeginning to grow old with touching courageBegun to fight with want from their cradlesBest talkers are willing that you should talk if you likeBoldest man is commonly a little behind a timid womanBook that they are content to know at second handBrowbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrustBusiness to take advantage of his necessityBut now I remember that he gets twenty dollars a monthBuzz of activities and pretencesCapriciousness of memory: what it will hold and what loseChained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his ownChristianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditionsChurch: "Oh yes, I go!
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