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Today is not forever.
— Louis Auchincloss
Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.
— Louis Auchincloss
But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.
— Louis Auchincloss
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
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
— Louis Auchincloss
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
— Louis Auchincloss
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
— Eli Wallach
Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
— Louis Auchincloss
Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.
— Louis Auchincloss
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
— Louis Auchincloss
I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.
— Louis Auchincloss
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
— Louis Auchincloss
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
Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.
— Louis Auchincloss
Australopithecus.
— Richelle Mead
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
— Jonathan Sacks
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
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
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
— Louis Auchincloss
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
Your literary style reflects your personality.
— Louis Auchincloss
Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.
— Louis Auchincloss
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
— Louis Auchincloss
But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
— Joseph Addison
Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist.
— Todd Park
I don't give a damn what people think.
— Louis Auchincloss
There's no real alternative to what there is.
— Louis Auchincloss
Great lovers have made great sacrifices.
— Louis Auchincloss
Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?
— Louis Auchincloss
Blessed be the ones that are free that have detached from possessions that can possess Thee.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The crowd has a way of being right.
— Louis Auchincloss
Saying NO is polite , possible and perfectly acceptable!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
— Louis Auchincloss
Society matters not so much. Words are everything.
— Louis Auchincloss