A true book is not always great. But a great book is never untrue.
Twenty-one
The impossible had occurred. I was no longer a mere journalist; I was an author. “After all, it’s nothing,” I said, with that intense and unoriginal humanity which distinguishes all of us. And in a blinding flash I saw that an author was in essence the same thing as a grocer or a duke.
Twenty-two
When the reason and the heart come into conflict the heart is invariably wrong.
Twenty-three
Marriage is excessively prosaic and eternal, not at all what you expect it to be.
Twenty-four
I do not forget that the realism of one age is the conventionality of the next. In the main the tendency of art is always to reduce and simplify its conventions, thus necessitating an increase of virtuosity in order to obtain the same effects of shapeliness and rhythm.