7 Quotes by John P. Marquand

Gilbert was always saying that he loved people. He needed them around him. He was always saying that he loved me, and I imagine he honestly believed this, though of course his handling of my career reflected favorably on himself. Love never did mean quite the same thing in the entertainment business as in less volatile circles.

If you have one strong idea, you can’t help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

I know a fellow who’s as broke as the Ten Commandments.

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey’s study.

It’s so much easier when one faces facts, but then all life is largely based on an avoidance of fact, and I admit I try to avoid them. I.