Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
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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.Louis Auchincloss
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
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.
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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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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
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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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