"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"

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Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1922). “Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism”

Henry Seidel Canby

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“I've been a lucky boy.”
“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”

Source : "Elin Nordegren Speaks: 'I Feel Stronger Than I Ever Have'" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. August 25, 2010.
“Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.”
“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.”
“In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church”
“Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.”
“Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.”
“The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.”

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