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He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is...more

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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courte...more

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I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

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We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setti...more

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Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law a...more

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Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

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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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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you i...more