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John Phillips Marquand quotes

American Novelist November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. John Phillips Marquand
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years. John Phillips Marquand
Materialism has made you worship Mammon and in this material world everything comes too easily. Heat comes too easily and cold. Money comes too easily. Don't forget that it will go as easily as well. We have all grown soft from this ease. Position changes easily. Values shift elusively. When everything is totalled up we have evolved a fine variety of flushing toilets but not a very good world. John Phillips Marquand
If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that we stand together peculiarly as one large family. Collectively, in habits and ideals, our group is a family group where kinship, however distant, stretches into the oddest corners. John Phillips Marquand
Some day you will know that there is a beauty of the soul that is more important than worldly beauty. Remember this when you see worldly beauty. John Phillips Marquand
You must learn to spend your money wisely...The main thing is not to have too much money to spend. This I have always found bewildering and a sure pathway to extravagance and foolishness. You only need to look about you among the unhappy members of the sporting set to see what happens when there is too much loose money in the bank. John Phillips Marquand
Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind. John Phillips Marquand
John Phillips Marquand quote: "His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos..."
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. John Phillips Marquand
Most people in the world don't know who the Apleys are and they don't give a damn. I don't intend this as rudeness, but as a sort of comfort. I know it has been a comfort to me sometimes. Just remember that most people don't give a damn. When you remember it, you won't feel the necessity of taking the Apleys so seriously. John Phillips Marquand
John Phillips Marquand quote: "It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few..."
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. John Phillips Marquand
Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion and from the knowledge that one has done the right thing and has stood by one's convictions. John Phillips Marquand
John Phillips Marquand quote: "I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments."
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. John Phillips Marquand
There can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities of the invading horde of barbarians are an outrage to civilized mankind. John Phillips Marquand

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