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• Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
• A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from…
• He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
• Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
• I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both…
• People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
• Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he…
• In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
• Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow…
• Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
• For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than…
• In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

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