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title: "2 Live Deep Quotes By Henry Seidel Canby"
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> [Live deep instead of fast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/live-deep-instead-of-fast/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/514/henry-seidel-canby-37685_deep_live-deep-instead-of-fast-621201_621201.jpg)

> [Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/live-deep-instead-of-fast-i-think-this-is-what-thoreau-meant/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/355/henry-seidel-canby-37685_thinking_live-deep-instead-of-fast-i-think-this-i_2084116.jpg)

## Other authors on Live Deep

## More by Henry Seidel Canby

> [The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/the-london-academy-has-seen-fit-recently-to-scoff-at-the-critics-who/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/flatulency-today-consists-in-saying-simply-in-several-different-ways/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/if-the-bell-of-intolerance-tolls-for-one-it-tolls-for-all/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [Live deep instead of fast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/live-deep-instead-of-fast/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [A short story is simplification to the highest degree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/a-short-story-is-simplification-to-the-highest-degree/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/while-the-novel-writer-aims-at-an-eminently-natural-method-of/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/the-short-story-its-course-plotted-and-its-form-proscribed-has-become/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/there-must-always-be-a-fringe-of-the-experimental-in-literature-poems/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/the-function-of-the-short-story-is-to-be-interesting-to-convey-vivid/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/live-deep-instead-of-fast-i-think-this-is-what-thoreau-meant/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [“Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the turf so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/good-writing-is-always-a-breaking-of-the-soil-clearing-away/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

> [Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-seidel-canby/reading-for-experience-is-the-only-reading-that-justifies-excitement/)

[Henry Seidel Canby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-seidel-canby/)

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