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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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

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The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

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You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

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To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

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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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