Henry Kitchell Webster > Quotes

“A story then...is water trying to get back to sea level”
― Henry Kitchell Webster

“The state's got no business with morals," said Barry. "That's the real cause of most of our municipal corruption," said Rodney. "A city administration, for instance, is corrupt exactly in ratio to its attempt to be moral. The more moral issues you import into politics—gambling, prostitution, Sunday closing, censored movies, and the rest—the more corrupt and helpless and inefficient your government will be.”
― Henry Kitchell Webster, The Real Adventure

“He was all about the work, giving a hand here, an order there, always good-humored, though brusque, and always inspiring the men with the sight of his own activity.”
― Henry Kitchell Webster

“There was no formal assumption of authority; Bannon's supremacy was established simply by the obvious fact that he was the man who knew how. Systematizing the confusion in one corner, showing another gang how to save handling a big stick twice, finally putting a runway across the drillage of the annex, and doing a hundred little things between times, he made himself master.”
― Henry Kitchell Webster, Calumet "K"

“Their minds had the same index of refraction, so that thoughts flashed back and forth between them effortlessly and without distortion.”
― Henry Kitchell Webster, Mary Wollaston