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Page 322 - one man may steal a horse, while another may not look over a hedge;
Page 101 - She became enthusiastic about them, and said they were the finest example of criminal reporting in the world. So they are. There is not a star reporter in England or America who could study Bataille's methods without profit. As for novelists, all novelists ought to read reports of trials. Many novelists do. Better than anything else in print that I know of, honest detailed reports of trials teach you how people actually live their daily lives. My friend mentioned two trials as being of special interest....
Page 54 - And I respectfully request you not to plume yourself on your reading, nor expect to acquire merit thereby. But should you answer: "I do try to translate literature into life", then I will ask you to take down any book at random from your shelves and conduct in your own mind an honest inquiry as to what has been the effect of that particular book on your actual living. If you can put your hand on any subsequent period, or fractional moment, of your life and say: "I acted more wisely then, I wasn't...
Page 206 - I have at least rendered it quite impossible for the stage, for which my intercourse with Drury Lane has given me the greatest contempt.
Page 206 - I much doubt it for publication even. It is too much in my old style ; but I composed it actually with a horror of the stage, and with a view to render the thought of it impracticable, knowing the zeal of my friends that I should try that for which I have an invincible repugnance, viz. a representation.
Page 321 - Don't be hard on me — simplifying and chastening necessity has laid its brutal hand on me and I have had to try to make somehow or other the money I don't make by literature. My books don't sell, and it looks as if my plays might. Therefore I am going with a brazen front to write half a dozen.
Page 54 - ... more philosophical? Where is the sense of reading morals unless your own are improved? Where is the sense of reading biography unless it is going to affect what people will say about you after your funeral? Where is the sense of reading poetry or fiction unless you see more beauty, more passion, more scope for your sympathy, than you saw before? <« If you boldly answer: "I only read for pleasure," then I retort that the man who drinks whisky might with force say : " I only drink whisky for pleasure.
Page 280 - The devoted experts were wrong again. In five seconds the championship fighting stood plainly in a class apart, thanks solely to Carpentier. Carpentier caught Beckett on the nose at once. Beckett positively had to rub his nose, an act which made the strong men around me shudder. Beckett was utterly outclassed. He never had a chance. The stadium beheld him lying stunned on his face. And the sight of Beckett prone, and Carpentier standing by him listening to the counting of...
Page 56 - ... Reading without subsequent reflection is ridiculous; it is equally a proof of folly and of vanity. Further, it is a sign of undue selfesteem to suppose that we can grasp the full import of an author's message at a single reading. I would not say that every book worth reading once is worth reading twice. But I would say that no book of great and established reputation is read till it is read at least twice. You can easily test the truth of this by reading again any classic; assuredly you will...
Page 127 - But, sir, it is not alone Members of Congress that the war party in this country has sought to intimidate. The mandate seems to have gone forth to the sovereign people of this country that they must be silent while those things are being done by their Government which most vitally concern their well-being, their happiness, and their lives. Today and for weeks past honest and law-abiding citizens of this country...