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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

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The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

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Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

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Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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