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You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. 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. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

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The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

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Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

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

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I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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The rich are different from us.

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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

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The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

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