Live deep instead of fast.
If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.
Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.
A short story is simplification to the highest degree
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing