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“... Molly was in the mood when the need to talk — to let oneself go — is so great that the choice of a listener is little more than an accident.”
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“He could fling words across the room like knives.”
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“Clothes, manner, and to a certain extent morals are the products of the economic life of the times.”
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“One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.”
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“... Los Angeles [is] possibly the rudest city in the nation, with a population that is exceedingly unhelpful. Once I was screamed at by the operator manning the 911 switchboard for trying to report a dead body I had seen on the street. Apparently, I was not the first caller, and somehow I should have known that.”
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“All my life I have hated and despised alto! ... From a boy it has affected me very strangely. That's why I hate Sunday. People will sing alto on Sunday that would never dream of singing it any other time.”
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“[On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish right alongside of him — and have much more fun — and much more expense.”
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“Fearful as reality is: it is less fearful than evasions of reality.”