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At times, of course, he might as well be married to a telephone answering machine, which said, in the most delightful and amusing way, “I’m busy now. Leave a message and I’ll get back to you later.”
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
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“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”
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are. They are different. ”
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