Disappointment Tears The Bearable Film Off Life.

Dialogue Must Appear Realistic Without Being So. Actual Realism-the Lifting, As It Were, Of Passages From A Stenographer's Take-down Of A 'real Life' Conversation-would Be Disruptive. Of What? Of The Illusion Of The Novel. In 'real Life' Everything Is Diluted; In The Novel Everything Is Condensed.

The Novel Does Not Simply Recount Experience, It Adds To Experience.

A Romantic Man Often Feels More Uplifted With Two Women Than With One: His Love Seems To Hit The Ideal Mark Somewhere Between Two Different Faces.

But To Be Quite Oneself One Must First Waste A Little Time.

I Suspect Victims; They Win In The Long Run.