57 Quotes by Budd Schulberg

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    When we left, the sun was taking its evening dip, slipping down into the ocean inch by inch like a fat woman afraid of the water.

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    I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion.

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    It made me uncomfortable. I guess I’ve always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.

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    He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity.

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    The principal furniture in Billie’s mind was a good-sized bed.

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    You’re physically incapable of having friends. All you can ever have are enemies and stooges.

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    There seem to be two kinds of self-conscious self-made men, those who like to dwell on the patriotic details of their ascent from newsboy or shoe-shiner at two bucks and peanuts a week and those who take every new level as if it were the only one they ever knew, rushing ahead so fast they are ashamed, afraid to look back and see where they’ve come from. One is a bore and the other is a heel.

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    We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren’t just results. They’re a process.

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