"...In a pool of sand and silt a starfish had thrust its arms up stiffly and was holding its body away from the stifli…"

"An old man had a habit of early morning walks on the beach. One day, after a storm, he saw a human figure in the dist…"

"Our modern attraction to short stories is not an accident of form; it is the sign of a real sense of fleetingness and…"

"Anybody can write a short story—a bad one, I mean—who has industry and paper and time enough; but not everyone may ho…"

"... there are more goodish novels than there are good short stories, and I think a short story has to be very good to…"

"“So,” continued the general, “I asked myself why the hunt no longer fascinated me. You are much younger than I am, Mr…"

"“I’ve always thought,” said Rainsford, “that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game.” For a moment th…"

"“Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were…"

"“Where there are pistol shots, there are men. Where there are men, there is food,” he thought. But what kind of men, …"

"Rainsford’s first impression was that the man was singularly handsome; his second was that there was an original, alm…"