Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her..
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some o….
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them..
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity..
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go..
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill..
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more..
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them..
Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do..
Be sure thy sin will find thee out..
Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said..
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to pr….
An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not..
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know...".
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were a….
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious..
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had d….
With thought, all problems can be resolved..
Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incid….
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do..