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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

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There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

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People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 7th, 1885

Died: January 10th, 1951

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