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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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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

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the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

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Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

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I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. 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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He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

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