Date of birth: 1874-03-22
Date of death: 1945-11-21
Quotes number: 21
Nationality: American
Profession: Novelist
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
