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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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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, an...more

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Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

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Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

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We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setti...more

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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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In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, d...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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My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and th...more

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law a...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.