Vulgar words in The Beautiful and Damned (Page 1)
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Faces swirled about him, a kaleidoscope of girls, ugly, ugly as sin--too fat, too lean, yet floating upon this autumn air as upon their own warm and passionate breaths poured out into the night.
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"I don't mind carrying you, Dick, but with that coat--" "I mean," continued Richard Caramel gravely, "that on paper your first paragraph contains the idea you're going to damn or enlarge on.
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But after you've all gone I'll be saying things for new Dicks to write down, and listening to the disillusions and cynicisms and emotions of new Anthonys--yes, and talking to new Glorias about the tans of summers yet to come."
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"He's a pious ass--a chickenbrain."
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This, had there been stags, would have been a delicate tribute to the girl, meaning "Damn you, don't cut in!"
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"Blockhead never will dance!
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First it had been "Block-house." lately, the more invidious "Blockhead."
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He had requested with a strong undertone of irony that she use his first name, and this she had done obediently several times--then slipping, helpless, repentant but dissolved in laughter, back into "Blockhead."
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Then her eyes blurred a little, and she murmured three words half aloud to the death-bound fire: "Good-by, you ass!" she said.
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She says I look tired, damn it."
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Blockhead came around about ten in his new car and took me out Riverside Drive.
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He regretted nervously that he had awakened so early--he would appear fagged at the wedding.
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What an ass I am!
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"I'd like to take Gloria abroad," he complained, "except for this damn war--and next to that I'd sort of like to have a place in the country, somewhere near New York, of course, where I could write--or whatever I decide to do."
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Think what an ass she'd be not to realize it before she married him.
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They're when I wonder whether any writing is worth while at all--I mean whether I'm not a sort of glorified buffoon."
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I'm in no humour for a ride in that damn hot train."
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"Well, damn it, I wasn't married.
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Work--that means a great arranging of the desk and the lights, a great sharpening of pencils, and 'Gloria, don't sing!' and 'Please keep that damn Tana away from me,' and 'Let me read you my opening sentence,' and 'I won't be through for a long time, Gloria, so don't stay up for me,' and a tremendous consumption of tea or coffee.
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Do you imagine I have a very thrilling time dozing on this damn porch?"
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The magnificent attitude of not giving a damn altered overnight; from being a mere tenet of Gloria's it became the entire solace and justification for what they chose to do and what consequence it brought.
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... ANTHONY, _meanwhile, approaches his other guest._) ANTHONY: Well, I'll be darned.
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"I've got to fix up this damn mess with my grandfather," he said with uneasy conviction.
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"I know, Anthony, but you _are_ such an ass!"
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"He did it, God damn him!"
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"Blockhead said he'd put me in--only if I'm ever going to do anything I'll have to start now.
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"God damn it, you've shouted 'wolf' once too often!"
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And you didn't even have the spunk to go to Mr. Haight when he sent for you about the suit."
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She remembered nervously that she had once called him "Blockhead" to his face.
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"He said this was a good time to do it because I didn't have a damn penny in there!"
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"Why, damn him!" cried Anthony, championing her violently with a curious perverseness of emotion, "why--" "Well, that's why I can't go to him."
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It seemed to him that the story which Pete had just finished telling was unusually and profoundly humorous--and he decided, as he did every day at about this point, that they were "damn good fellows, by golly!" who would do a lot more for him than any one else he knew.
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"Well, I'll be darned," he protested in an aggrieved tone, "here I've come out without my pocketbook."