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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

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