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What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

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

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How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

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This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

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

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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

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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

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Murder your darlings.

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