Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama ...begins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A shilling life will give you all the facts: How Father beat him, how he ran away,... What were the struggles of his youth, what acts Made him the greatest figure of his day:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whip...ped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life,... The word "Intellectual" suggests straight away A man who's untrue to his wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here.... The cats particularly. They seem to know. You c...an fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »