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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish ...more

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Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?

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God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

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I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, ...more

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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the

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God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautif...more

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I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To dump it on your own advice would be as b...more

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Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.