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John Phillips Marquand [1893-1960] American

Rank: 102
Novelist, Writer

John Phillips Marquand was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938.

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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.		101
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.		102
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.		103
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.		104
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.		105

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