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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

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Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

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