American - Novelist | November 10, 1893 - July 16, 1960
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
John Phillips Marquand
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There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
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