The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.
Elinor GlynThe duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.
Elinor GlynNo matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either โ although this actual person is abominably good-looking โ it does not depend upon intelligence or character or โ anything โ as you say, it is just it.
Elinor GlynIt's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a womanโand all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.
Elinor Glyndo you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.
Elinor Glyn