For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Fitzgerald: The rich are different from us. Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.

I've brought Gatsby to life. I've accounted for his money. I've fixed up the two weak chapters (VI and VII). I've improved his first party. I've broken up his long narrative in Chapter VIII.

Learn young about hard work and manners--and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Obtain a gross of small white boxes such as are used for a bride's cake. Cut the turkey into small squares, roast, stuff, kill, boil, bake, and allow to skewer. Now we are ready to begin. Fill each box with a quantity of soup stock and pile in a handy place. As the liquid elapses, the prepared turkey is added until the guests arrive. The boxes, delicately tied with white ribbons, are then placed in the handbags of the ladies, or in the men's side pockets.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in the process of leaving or regaining faith in Mother church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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