Thorne Smith Quotes

#1. Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The

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#2. All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct.

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#3. If men had to have babies there wouldn't be any sex life left.

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#4. She had one of those twisty minds that find no difficulty in sublimating their meanest little impulses to almost dizzily ethical heights.

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#5. He was committing a terrible crime. He was destroying her good opinion of herself. Topper

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#6. She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

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#7. Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No

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#8. He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active.

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#9. Rest here with me a moment," he said, "and let the world go to hell.

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#10. We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.

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#11. Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

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#12. Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

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#13. Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

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#14. making. Little birds were always so excited. He had

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#15. For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live.

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