To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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