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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

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you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

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but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

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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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Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide

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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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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

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

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When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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