Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lo >>
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. >>
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be >>
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. >>
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children w >>
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have wri >>
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.