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Grace Metalious Quotes

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.

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.

Grace Metalious
Children, Block, Hero

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

Grace Metalious
Hate, People, Wish
Grace Metalious (1956). “Peyton Place”, p.345, UPNE

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

Grace Metalious
People, Awful, Taste
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Indian summer is like a woman.

Grace Metalious
Summer, Indian Summer, Indian
Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.1, UPNE

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

Grace Metalious
Hate, Men, Easy
Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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

Grace Metalious
Rocks, Sound, Naked

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

Grace Metalious
Hands, Ifs, Hand In Hand
Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.356, UPNE

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

Grace Metalious
Men, Ifs, Security
Grace Metalious (1956). “Peyton Place”, p.276, UPNE

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.

Grace Metalious
Girlfriend, Sex, Glasses
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Grace Metalious
Bottles, Saws, Empty
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Grace Metalious
Hurt, Watches, Alive
Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.35, UPNE

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.

Grace Metalious
Hate, War, Men
Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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