7 quotes
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
The Common Reader (1925)
Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.
The Common Reader (1925)
We are not pleading merely for courage and sincerity; we are suggesting that the proper stuff of fiction is a little other than custom would have us believe it.
The Common Reader (1925)
Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
The Common Reader (1925)
Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
The Common Reader (1925)
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness.
The Common Reader (1925)
We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.
The Common Reader (1925)