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“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”

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Forward http://books.google.com/books?id=pksdAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+work+to+do+and+I+am+afraid+not+to+do+it%22&pg=PAvii#v=onepage to The Horse Knows the Way (1964).

“The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.”

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“They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”

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“John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man—always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.”

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Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/ by Burt Prelutsky, in The Los Angeles Times (January 26, 1969), p. 468