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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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The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

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I have lived so long within the circle of this book [Tender Is The Night] and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real world does...more

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I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, ...more

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...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am sl...more

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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vita...more