"Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do -- but live. This place makes it all come over me. I see it now. I haven't done so -- and now I'm old. It's too late. It has gone past me -- I've lost it. You have time. You are young. Live!"
Quotes by William Dean Howells
"Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month."
"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."
William Dean HowellsWilliam Dean Howells (/ˈhaʊəlz/ HOW-əlz; March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was par...
