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"Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true."
"[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file."
"Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn."
"If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)"
"My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man."
"My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers."
"I've finally gotten to the bottom of things."
"There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses."
"[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom."
"We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not."
"Somebody was using the pencil."
"...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink."
"[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me."
"[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust."
"Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand."
"There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence."
"Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking."
"People are more than fun than anybody."
"If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead."
"People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!"