“We'll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!”
The Last of the Plainsmen (1908).
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American novelist 1872–1939Related quotes
The Drowned and the Saved (1986)
“Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.”
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.
Book I, ode iv, line 15
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us”
“What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track”
Letter 60, to Robert Trevelyan, 28 October 1905
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
Context: You can gather however that I know I am not a real artist, and at the same time am fearfully serious over my work and willing to sweat at atmosphere if it helps me wo what I want. What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track—I cannot explain myself properly, for you must remember (I forget it myself) that though 'clever' I have a small and cloudy brain, and cannot clear it by talking or reading philosophy.
