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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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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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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

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And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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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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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

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Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

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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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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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