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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

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An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1897

Died: December 7th, 1975

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