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Men ... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child ...

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

required less personal supervision, and as they both got their

Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter,

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

The theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

The calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

There is no truly honest autobiography.

Every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

A man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

No one moved to get the whisky, from which I judged there were three pocket flasks ready for emergency.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

If one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

There comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

Enemies are an indication of character.

It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

And there are no pockets in shrouds!

All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

When knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

It's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.