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Forgotten is forgiven.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

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It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

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He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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

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in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

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I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

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

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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with a ghost in a land created by her own fantasy.

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