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Thomas Wolfe:
So I've disappointed you yet again. Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
Yes, very much. Thomas Wolfe:
Well, I'm sorry I'm not decent enough for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends. But before you drag me out to the woodshed, I think you ought to look at who's giving the lesson. Am I supposed to grow up like you? Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up
So I've disappointed you yet again. Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
Yes, very much. Thomas Wolfe:
Well, I'm sorry I'm not decent enough for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends. But before you drag me out to the woodshed, I think you ought to look at who's giving the lesson. Am I supposed to grow up like you? Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up
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So I've disappointed you yet again
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Yes very much
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Well I'm sorry I'm not decent enough
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for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends
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But before you drag me out to the woodshed
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I think you ought to look at who's giving the lesson
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Am I supposed to grow up like you
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No tom but you're supposed to grow up
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Movie Summary
A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
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Thomas Wolfe
