“Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.”
Source: Narrow Rooms
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Famous James Purdy Quotes
“There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.”
Source: Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Source: Cabot Wright Begins
Source: Narrow Rooms
“But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.”
Source: Cabot Wright Begins
Source: Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Source: Narrow Rooms
“Maureen had been born with the face of a gargoyle on the body of a sylph.”
Source: Eustace Chisholm and the Works
Source: Narrow Rooms
“The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.”
“No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.”
“There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.”
“In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.”