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• Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
• The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
• To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in…
• Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
• Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
• We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
• Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.
• I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
• A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he…
• A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he…
• There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
• With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's…

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