Grace Metalious
Grace Metalious
Grace Metaliouswas an American author, best known for her controversial novel Peyton Place, which stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 59 weeks. It sold 20 million copies in hardcover and another 12 million as a Dell paperback...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 September 1924
CountryUnited States of America
war hate men
If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.
hate men easy
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.
hate people wish
Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?
girlfriend tom
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .
drives
To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.
men security ifs
There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.
girlfriend sex glasses
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.
hurt alive watches
Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.
saws bottles empty
I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself,
rocks hips sound
Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.
hands ifs hand-in-hand
I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.
summer indian-summer indian
Indian summer is like a woman.
people taste awful
If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.
children block hero
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.