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MacShane raggedly splices quotes into otherwise smooth scenes. For instance, O'Hara, at a bar in Hollywood with a fellow writer, Robert Benchley, has just struck a woman and slapped Benchley's cigar out of his mouth. The next morning O'Hara calls Benchley...
...Benchley: For what, John...
...Benchley: Look, John, please don't apologize to me. You're a shit and everyone knows you're a shit, and people ask you out in spite of it. It's nothing to apologize about...
...Benchley: Of course I mean it, John. You were born a shit just as some people are born with blue eyes, but that's no reason to go around apologizing for it. People take you for what...
Psychiatrists are born reductionists. As Robert Benchley put it, "Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid...