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Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

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Henry Seidel Canby

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism. . . the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

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While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

Method, Natural, Stories, Story, Transcription

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.

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The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient. . . but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

Efficient, Elements, Important, Proscribed, Stories, Undoubted

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

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The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

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