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

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He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

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

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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

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A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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