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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.



If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.



Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.



I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.



The more you reason the less you create



Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside of an advertising agency.



I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i



Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.








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