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

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A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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We all have souls of different ages

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

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It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

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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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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

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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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Englishmen must have an island.

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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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