In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who ''come out'' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.Cyril Connolly
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
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