[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
Useless as a pulled tooth.
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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!
Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.
[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.
There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.
A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.
I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.
I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.
Enemies are an indication of character.
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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