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Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964) was an American author known for her controversial novel Peyton Place, one of the best-selling works in publishing history.

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The public loves to create a hero. . . . Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

Block, Child, Children, Destroys, Hero, Think

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Awful, Lousy, People, Taste

If every man,. . . ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Ceased, Hate, Men, See, War, World

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Bottle, Bottles, Empty, Looked, Saw, Saws

Indian summer is like a woman.

Indian, Indian Summer, Like, Summer

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips. . . but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

Expose, Naked, Nude, Rocks, Sound, Word

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Hardest, Hate, People, Somethin, Wish

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Girlfriend, Glass, Glasses, Sex, Talking

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Ifs, Man, Men, Security, Trust, Truth

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Alive, Dead, Hurt, Watches

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

Easy, Hate, Man, Men

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

Gentleness, Hand, Hand In Hand, Hands, Ifs, Money

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