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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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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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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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Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

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Everything that begins, begins with blood.

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Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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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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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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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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I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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