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Louis Auchincloss quotes: Today is not forever.

Today is not forever.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.

But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Louis Auchincloss quotes: There's no real alternative to what there is.

There's no real alternative to what there is.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: No! It's not your fault. You belong to the last generation of women who have been brought up to use their sex appeal to further their ambition.

No! It's not your fault. You belong to the last generation of women who have been brought up to use their sex appeal to further their ambition.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.

Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.

I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: The crowd has a way of being right.

The crowd has a way of being right.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?

Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Your literary style reflects your personality.

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: I don't give a damn what people think.

I don't give a damn what people think.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Louis Auchincloss quotes: Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.