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He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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It takes two to make an accident.

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Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

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Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

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

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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

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Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

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