Top 40 Louis Auchincloss Quotes

#1. A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere
even in prison.

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#2. It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.

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#3. A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

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#4. If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

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#5. Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

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#6. The whole thing is so degrading! That a man like Eric should be reduced to crawling before those bloodsuckers who are taking every advantage of his weakened state. And strip himself of one whole third of his wealth to throw it away like all the huge sums they've already got out of him!

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#7. Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

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#8. But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.

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#9. I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer's character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I

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#10. We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

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#11. In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.

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#12. Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

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#13. There's no real alternative to what there is.

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#14. A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

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#15. No! It's not your fault. You belong to the last generation of women who have been brought up to use their sex appeal to further their ambition.

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#16. Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

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#17. There's no point discussing an engagement with a person determined that nothing will convince her that her love is not the be-all and end-all of her life.

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#18. I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.

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#21. Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

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#22. The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

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#23. As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

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#24. Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?

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#25. I don't give a damn what people think.

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#26. Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

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#27. I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.

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#28. It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

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#29. Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

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#30. Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

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#31. And Clara was devastated. She had as yet grown no hedge around the little rose garden of her extreme sensibility; she was still absurdly vulnerable. She

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#32. There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

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#33. I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.

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#34. Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

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#35. Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.

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#36. Your literary style reflects your personality.

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#37. Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

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#38. Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country ... with hope and delight.

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#39. The crowd has a way of being right.

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#40. Today is not forever.

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