Bret Harte Quotes

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant – or a miracle of understatement

When folks find I ain’t afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I’m tellin’ the truth about my own.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.