7 Quotes by Thorne Smith



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    Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

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    Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

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    Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper’s reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The.

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    Rest here with me a moment,” he said, “and let the world go to hell.

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