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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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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.

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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

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She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.

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Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

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good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

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Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

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

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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