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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts."
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"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."

"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."

"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."

"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
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