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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

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I used to build dreams about you.

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Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

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Her voice is full of money.

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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

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Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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