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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

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I was too absorbed to be responsive

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

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you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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

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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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