Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one