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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

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All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

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I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

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You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

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Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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