She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

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The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

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I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

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