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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

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Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

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To most women art is a form of scandal.

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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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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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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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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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