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- The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.…
- The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of…
- I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
- When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a…
- She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You…
- The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
- No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
- Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
- A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless…
- First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
- Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
- It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
- A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
- Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know…
- In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who…
- There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in…
- It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
- A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of…
- Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
- Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
- The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
- In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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