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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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

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

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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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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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

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So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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Her voice is full of money.

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