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There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

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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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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

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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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Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

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I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters.

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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

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