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- Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.
- Wilfred Sheed
- Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
- Cecilia Bartholomew
- Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- John Viscount Morley
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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