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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
"We tend to live up to our expectations."
"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great."
"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
Explore more quotes by William Dean Howells
"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."
"The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you."
"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."
"In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere."
"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
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