Peter Gay
German-American historian and author (1923-2015)
Louis Auchincloss
American lawyer, novelist and historian (1917-2010)
Louis Stanton Auchinclosswas an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money.
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Louis Stanton Auchinclosswas an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.
4 Quotes by Louis Auchincloss
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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.
Louis AuchinclossAmerican lawyer, novelist and historian (1917-2010)
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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis AuchinclossAmerican lawyer, novelist and historian (1917-2010)
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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Louis AuchinclossAmerican lawyer, novelist and historian (1917-2010)
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We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
Louis AuchinclossAmerican lawyer, novelist and historian (1917-2010)