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Louis Auchincloss Quotes

Louis Auchincloss quotes

American Novelist September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010

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A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss Louis Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss quote: "Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in..."
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. Louis Auchincloss
I didn't have to say another word, and I had the sense not to. I had gained Sumner's full attention, and that was all I needed. He looked at me; he really saw me, for perhaps the first time, and Pa thereafter got only his second glances. I won't say that I caught Sumner with three words, but they gave me a start. To keep up his image of the bright and thoughtful woman he had idealized for himself I had only to let him develop his own conception. I wouldn't have to do a thing until we get... Louis Auchincloss
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. Louis Auchincloss
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. Louis Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss quote: "Today is not forever."
Today is not forever. Louis Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss quote: "We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we..."
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were. Louis Auchincloss

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