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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

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good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

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Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

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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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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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