Best Short Novels by British & American Authors / Лучшие повести британских и американских писателей

“I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself.

Нельзя быть бедной и свободной одновременно. Это людям давно известно.

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future- flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.