A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
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The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.
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We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
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With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of [her husband's] absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
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