Louis Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss
Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 September 1917
CityLawrence, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.
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.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.
Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
The crowd has a way of being right.
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.