Grace Metalious Quotes

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I feel pretty sure of one thing — it'll probably cost my husband his job.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

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I have a feeling that Gilmanton got as angry with me as it did because secretly my neighbors agreed with me. That was where the shoe pinched. You get angrier about the truth than you do about lies.

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If I had to do it over again, it would be easier to be poor. Before I was successful, I was as happy as anyone gets.

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Funny, you don't look like a friend — ah, but they never do.

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Grace Metalious

Grace Metalious

Born: September 8, 1924

Died: February 25, 1964 (aged 39)

Bio: Grace Metalious was an American author, best known for her controversial novel Peyton Place, which stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 59 weeks. It sold 20 million copies in hardcover and another 12 million as a Dell paperback.

Known for:

Peyton Place (1956)
Return to Peyton Place (1959)
The tight white collar (1960)
No Adam In Eden (1963)
Retour to Peyton Place

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