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QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM W. D. HOWELLS.
THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Absolutely, so positively, so almost
aggressively truthful
Account of one’s reading is an account of one’s life
Affections will not be bidden
Beginning to grow old with touching courage
Book that they are content to know at second hand
Christianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditions
Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature
Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped
Contemptible he found our pseudo-equality
Critical vanity and self-righteousness
Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature
Despair broke in laughter
Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust
Didn’t reason about their beliefs, but only argued
Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts
Even a day’s rest is more than most people can bear
Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly
Exchanging inaudible banalities
Fear of asking too much and the folly of asking too 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 too bad to be
Incredible in their insipidity
Industrial slavery
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
Livy: Well, if you are to be lost, I want to be lost with you
Livy Clemens: the loveliest person I have ever seen
Luxury of helplessness
Married Man: after the first start-off he don’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 and goes for less
Old man’s disposition to speak of his infirmities
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 and ridiculous
Refused to see us as we see ourselves
Shackles of belief worn so long
She liked to get all she could out of her emotions
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 to despise
Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality
Submitted, as people always do with the trials of 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 really release
When she’s really sick, she’s better
Wonder why we hate the past so?–“It’s so damned 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 who does not joke
COMPLETE QUOTATIONS
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
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