John O'Hara
Writer
1905-01-31
Books by John O'Hara
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Quotes by John O'Hara
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Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.
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They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
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An artist is his own fault.
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We'll open in Boston and stay there two weeks. Maybe they'll make us cut out some of the dirty stuff, but we can put it back in for New York.
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Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.
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George Gershwin died yesterday, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.
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Men go to musicals. Women are the ones who buy the tickets for plays.
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In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.
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All those happy confusions of himself with God, those identifications with divinity and genius, and that supreme self-confidence-all of them were as lost as the smoke of Gettysburg, the tears of Gethsemane.
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Most of your clean-cut types don't have any talent. When they get done washing their face in the morning that's about the end of their contribution.
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