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Richard Caramel
Anthony Patch thinks of Maury as his best friend. They spend most of their time together drinking and making fun of their friend Richard Caramel for taking his work as a writer too seriously. For Maury, unlike Anthony, drinking the day away is a phase that he thinks of as a project he will eventually complete in favor of an actual career. Maury meets Richard’s cousin Gloria Gilbert and becomes fixated on her before Anthony does, but his feeling that he is not suited to a fun love affair with a flapper prevents him from calling her. Once Anthony decides to marry Gloria, Maury becomes more and more absent from the narrative. He only appears again in the climactic sequence when Anthony must drunkenly beg him for money. His embarrassment to be seen speaking to Anthony suggests that their friendship, if it was ever real, has dissolved.
Maury Noble Quotes in The Beautiful and Damned
The The Beautiful and Damned quotes below are all either spoken by Maury Noble or refer to Maury Noble. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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She was at the top now and could see the lands about her as successive sweeps of open country, cold under the moon, coarsely patched and seamed with thin rows and heavy clumps of trees…The oppression was lifted now – the tree-tops below her were rocking the young starlight to a haunted doze. She stretched out her arms with a gesture of freedom. This was what she had wanted, to stand alone where it was high and cool.
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Maury Noble Quotes in The Beautiful and Damned
The The Beautiful and Damned quotes below are all either spoken by Maury Noble or refer to Maury Noble. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5
Quotes
She was at the top now and could see the lands about her as successive sweeps of open country, cold under the moon, coarsely patched and seamed with thin rows and heavy clumps of trees…The oppression was lifted now – the tree-tops below her were rocking the young starlight to a haunted doze. She stretched out her arms with a gesture of freedom. This was what she had wanted, to stand alone where it was high and cool.
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