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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

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Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

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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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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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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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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

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