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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

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You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

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She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

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I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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Englishmen must have an island.

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