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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

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She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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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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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

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When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

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Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

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And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

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Kiss me now, love me now.

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

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