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Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond or a mistress. Too many are dangerous. Because one adjective is as revealing as a lightning flash, don't think that ten will make the story ten times as good. There is a law of diminishing returns.
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The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Stanley Walker
Born:
1898
Died:
1962
(aged 64)
Bio:
Stanley Walker was an editor of the New York Herald Tribune in the first half of the 20th century.
Known for:
The Night Club Era (1933)
Mrs. Astor's Horse (1935)
City Editor (1934)
Dewey, an American of this century (1944)
Pipe Dreams: Book Two
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