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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

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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 want to do everything in the world with you.

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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

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All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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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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You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

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I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

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