Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
Mutli-tools are like insults, girls - you should always have one on hand.
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.
Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway
Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.
There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)
An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)
All raw, uncooked, protesting."(on Aldous Huxley)
Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.
Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necess...
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
I'll give you an idea of what kind of a guy he was. St. Francis would have punched him in the mouth.
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