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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

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Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

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They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

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I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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