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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1897

Died: December 7th, 1975

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