Literature and Life (Complete) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 661 pages of information about Literature and Life (Complete).

Literature and Life (Complete) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 661 pages of information about Literature and Life (Complete).

PG EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS FOR THE ENTIRE WORK: 

    Absence of distinction
    Advertising
    Aim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readers
    Ambitious to be of ugly modern patterns
    An artistic atmosphere does not create artists
    Anise-seed bag
    Any man’s country could get on without him
    Any sort of work that is slighted becomes drudgery
    Artist has seasons, as trees, when he cannot blossom
    As soon as she has got a thing she wants, begins to hate it
    Begun to fight with want from their cradles
    Blasts of frigid wind swept the streets
    Book that they are content to know at second hand
    Business to take advantage of his necessity
    Clemens is said to have said of bicycling
    Competition has deformed human nature
    Conditions of hucksters imposed upon poets
    Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog
    Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts
    Do not want to know about such squalid lives
    Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable
    Encounter of old friends after the lapse of years
    Even a day’s rest is more than most people can bear
    Eyes fixed steadfastly upon the future
    Face that expresses care, even to the point of anxiety
    Fate of a book is in the hands of the women
    For most people choice is a curse
    General worsening of things, familiar after middle life
    God of chance leads them into temptation and adversity
    Happy in the indifference which ignorance breeds in us
    Hard to think up anything new
    Heart of youth aching for their stoical sorrows
    Heighten our suffering by anticipation
    Here and there an impassioned maple confesses the autumn
    Historian, who is a kind of inferior realist
    Houses are of almost terrifying cleanliness
    I do not think any man ought to live by an art
    If he has not enjoyed writing no one will enjoy reading
    If one were poor, one ought to be deserving
    Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success
    Ladies make up the pomps which they (the men) forego
    Lascivious and immodest as possible
    Leading part cats may play in society
    Leaven, but not for so large a lump
    Literary spirit is the true world-citizen
    Literature beautiful only through the intelligence
    Literature has no objective value
    Literature is Business as well as Art
    Look of challenge, of interrogation, almost of reproof
    Malevolent agitators
    Man is strange to himself as long as he lives
    Mark Twain
    Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation
    Men read the newspapers, but our women read the books
    More zeal than knowledge in it
    Most journalists would have been literary men if they could
    Neatness that brings despair

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