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Thomas Wolfe:
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 wood shed, I think you ought to look at who is giving the lesson. Am I supposed to grow up like you? Maxwell Evarts Perkins:
No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up
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 wood shed, I think you ought to look at who is 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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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.
