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John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?
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More will mean worse.
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A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
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Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.
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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
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There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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Kingsley Amis |
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'Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.'
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Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.
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