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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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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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I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

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She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

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It's a mining town in lotus land.

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The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

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Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

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And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.

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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

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Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

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