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

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All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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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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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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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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To most women art is a form of scandal.

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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

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The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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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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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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