The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.