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- I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody…
- But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never…
- It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working…
- Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many…
- ... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
- I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
- But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you…
- The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy…
- I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You…
- I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine,…
- As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my…
- They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that…
- I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep…
- I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if…
- If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply…
- The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love…
- She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think…
- You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
- Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
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