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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courte...more

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

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I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

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I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.

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Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

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The present was the thing--work to do and someone to love. But not to love too much, for he knew the injury that a father can do to a daughter or a mo...more

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Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

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I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen ...more

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One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions th...more

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Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

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Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....T...more

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.