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“The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing...”
“A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.”
“I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.”
“People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.”
“Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.”
“Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.”
“Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.”
“Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.”
“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.”
“A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.”
“Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?”Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.”“To — Where’s that? What for?”“To sell my jewels, Mrs. Pool. And to see Aladdin, and Harun-al-Rash...”
“[She had] a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps pai...”
“America — rather, the United States — seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warmhearted, overfriendly; quick-witte...”
“It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.”
“About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.”
“A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.”
