Samuel McChord Crothers Quotes

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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers
There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.

Samuel McChord Crothers
We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.

Samuel McChord Crothers
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

Samuel McChord Crothers
To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.

Samuel McChord Crothers
The distinction between Literature and Science is fundamental. What is a virtue in one sphere is a vice in the other.

Samuel McChord Crothers
Science will not tolerate half knowledge nor pleasant imaginings, nor sympathetic appreciations; it must have definite demonstrations. The knowledge of the best that has been said and thought may be consoling, but it implies an unscientific principle of selection. It can be proved by statistics that the best things are exceptional.

Samuel McChord Crothers
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Samuel McChord Crothers