1. “ I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
2. “You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow…Sophisticated – God I’m sophisticated!”
3. “We heard it from three people so it must be true.”
4. I'm one of the few honest people I have ever known

1. “It’s just a crazy old thing, I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”
2. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic and they don’t believe in divorce”
3. "I can't stand my husband. The only crazy thing I did was marry him"

1. The bar was in full swing…until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.
2. It’s a bona fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph…What realism! Knew when to stop too – didn’t cut the pages….

1. Finest specimens of human molars”
2. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes, and supper- boxes and tool-boxes and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.
3. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor

1. I keep it always with interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people.
2. …I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
3. Now it was again, a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
4. There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion

1. It was