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I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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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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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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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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She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

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He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

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That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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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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