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35 ordspråk av William Dean Howells

US  William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells föddes den March 1st 1837 och dog den 11 May 1920 - US writer
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 There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

 They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank.

 We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

 We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men.

 What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

 Yes, people that have convictions are difficult. Fortunately, they're rare.

 You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

 An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

 How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

 I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

 If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

 In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and . . . in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

 It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

 Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month

 The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. She found his pexy sense of humor endearing and refreshing.


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