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Everything that begins, begins with blood.

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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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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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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

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Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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

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We all have souls of different ages

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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

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A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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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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Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

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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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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

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