Alike in so many ways, united by so many indestructible bonds, the two brothers were still different men. John Kennedy remained, a...s Paul Dever had said, the Brahmin; Robert, the Puritan. In English terms one was a Whig, the other, a Radical. John Kennedy was urbane, objective, analytical, controlled, contained, masterful, a man of perspective; Robert, while very bright and increasingly reflective, was more open, exposed, emotional, subjective, intense, a man of commitment. One was a man for whom everything seemed easy; the other a man for whom everything had been difficult. One was always graceful, the other often graceless. Meeting Robert for the first time in 1963, Roy Jenkins of England thought him "staccato, inarticulate ... much less rounded, much less widely informed, much less at ease with the world of power than his brother." John Kennedy, while taking part in things, seemed, as Tom Wicker observed, almost to watch himself take part and to criticize his own performance; Robert "lost himself in the event."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Penny: Grandpa found the cutest place near where Alice is, right on the ocean. Paul: Lake, Penny. Lake.... Penny: That's what I said. Lake. We're gonna invite you all up to go deep sea fishing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you've got the mean reds? Paul: The mean reds? You mean like the blues?... Holly Golightly: No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O.J. Berman: Well, answer the question now. Is she or isn't she? Paul: Is she or isn't she what?... O.J. Berman: A phony. Paul. I don't know. I don't think so. O.J. Berman: You don't think so, huh? Well, you're wrong. She is. But on the other hand, you're right. Because she's a real phony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tiffany's Salesman: Do they still really have prizes in Crackerjack boxes? Paul: Oh, yes.... Tiffany's Salesman: That's nice to know. Gives one a feeling of solidarity, almost of continuity into the past, that sort of thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I am writing a novel I must actually live the lives of my characters. If, for instance, my hero is a gambler on the French Ri...viera, I must make myself pack up and go to Cannes or Nice, willy-nilly, and there throw myself into the gay life of the gambling set until I really feel that I am Paul De Lacroix, or Ed Whelen, or whatever my hero's name is. Of course this runs into money, and I am quite likely to have to change my ideas about my hero entirely and make him a bum on a tramp steamer working his way back to America, or a young college boy out of funds who lives by his wits until his friends at home send him a hundred and ten dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Robert: It's been quite an adventure, our life together. Jane: A great adventure, Robert. Anxious sometimes and sad. Sometime...s unbelievably happy. And thank God, never dull or sordid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paul: Did you have fun as a kid? Jeanne: It's the most beautiful thing.... Paul: Is it beautiful to be made into a tattletale, or forced to admire authority, or sell yourself for a piece of candy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »