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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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She knew few words and believed in none.

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

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...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

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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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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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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

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A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

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I was too absorbed to be responsive

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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

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A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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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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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

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