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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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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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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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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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Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

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