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Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Gene Fowler
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Gene Fowler
Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Gene Fowler
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
Gene Fowler
That man was so much larger than life that there's no scale by which to measure him. Most of Wilson's dialogue, if put down on paper, seems either vulgar or obscene.
Gene Fowler
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Gene Fowler
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Gene Fowler
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
Gene Fowler
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Gene Fowler
If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Gene Fowler