"What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers."
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"Eternity is a ham and two people."
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"Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league."
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"There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it."
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"Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play."
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"Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young."
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"But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous."
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"Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end."
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"There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel."
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"[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot."
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"And where does she find them?"
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"Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you."
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"Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page."
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"Flowers are heaven's masterpiece."
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"[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents."
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"[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe."
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