What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
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The knowledge of your helplessness in any circumstances is so perfect that it begets a sense of irresponsibility, almost of security and as you drowse upon the pallet of the sleeping car, and feel yourself hurled forward through the obscurity, you are almost thankful that you can do nothing, for it is upon this condition only that you can endure it and some such condition as this, I suppose, accounts for many heroic facts in the world.
William Dean Howells
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
William Dean Howells
There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure a headache darkens the universe while it lasts, a cup of tea really lightens the spirit bereft of all reasonable consolations.
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