27 quotes
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.
The Venture of Rational Faith (1908)
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people — the autobiographists and the biographists.
Pipers and a Dancer (1924)
She specialised in feminism, and in her eyes to be a woman was in itself a good argument.
I Pose (1915)
The gardener was one of those who are never surprised without being thunderstruck.
I Pose (1915)
Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.
The Little World (1925)
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.
I Pose (1915)
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Pipers and a Dancer (1924)
Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.
I Pose (1915)
A committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
Living Alone (1919)
Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.
I Pose (1915)
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
I Pose (1915)
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Living Alone (1919)
Go forth, go forth, and slay the Philistine.
"Well, Ipsie, all I can say is..." But she never said anything more, so perhaps that really was all she could say.
Pipers and a Dancer (1924)
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.
The Poor Man (1922)
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
This Is the End (1917)
Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.
I Pose (1915)
None of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
The Venture of Rational Faith (1908)
Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.
The Poor Man (1922)
The fifth stone is a magic stone, my David,
Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss.
This Is the End (1917)