5 Quotes & Sayings By John Ohara

John O'Hara was born in New York City on February 25, 1899, and died in Locust Valley, New York, on June 18, 1961. He was a novelist and short story writer whose best-known works include "Appointment in Samarra," the title story of the collection The World I Live In, and "The Longest Day." He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for the play Button-Down Mind and one for a biography of Robert Benchley.

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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. John OHara
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There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. 'All the perfumes of Arabia' makes you think of all the perfumes of Arabia and nothing more. It is the trouble with all metaphors where human behavior is concerned. People are not ships, chess men, flowers, race horses, oil paintings, bottles of champagne, excrement, musical instruments or anything else but people. Metaphors are all right to give you an idea.) . John OHara
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Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’t have you destroy. John OHara
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Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes. John OHara