If you haven't had your life what have you had?
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form