“It’s always easier to kill someone else’s darlings than it is to kill your own.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.”
― Ruthless: A Memoir
― Ruthless: A Memoir
“You can’t fling the hands up in a passionate gesture when you are driving a car at fifty miles an hour. Otherwise, I should have done so.”
― The Code of the Woosters
― The Code of the Woosters
“It’s an extraordinary thing—every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don’t you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?”
― The Code of the Woosters
― The Code of the Woosters
“Don’t they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?’ ‘Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.”
― The Code of the Woosters
― The Code of the Woosters
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