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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

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Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

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Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

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We all have souls of different ages

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the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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