“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
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“It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.”
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“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
“I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”
― Love Among the Chickens
― Love Among the Chickens
“A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.”
― Summer Moonshine
― Summer Moonshine
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