“Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.”

“The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.”

“Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’vegot none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring upthe masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the moneygives out.”

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

“There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.”

“Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

“And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore, the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is in the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.”