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Peter S. Prescott Quotes

Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.

Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.

Peter S. Prescott
Writing, Two, Novelists

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott
Book, Today, Desperation
Peter S. Prescott (1986). “Never in Doubt: Critical Essays on American Books, 1972-1985”

My advice is to run while you can.

Peter S. Prescott
Running, Advice

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

Peter S. Prescott
Two, Novelists, Rabbits

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

Peter S. Prescott
Thinking, Academic, Abacus

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