Produced by David Widger
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
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quotes and Images From The Works of William Dean H
- 2: And hypocritical provincialitySubmitted
- 3: So almost aggressively truthful Abstract
- 4: Or else too good for it His coming almost killed her
- 5: He could not write a novel Look of challenge
- 6: He liked bounds Nothing in the way of sport
- 7: Propriety Stupidly truthful Style is the man