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Louis Auchincloss Quotes: I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
         

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


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



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I don't give a damn what people think.



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

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



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

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



Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Great lovers have made great sacrifices.



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Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

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I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things.

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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.



Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.



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I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.



In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.



Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.




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