Agnes Repplier Quotes About Writing

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  • Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  • real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

    Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin
  • Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

  • A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

    Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”
  • Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

    Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”
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