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Louis Auchincloss [1917-0] American
Rank: 106
Novelist, Lawyer


Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. 


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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
101
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
102
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
103
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
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