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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

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He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

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A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

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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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All things come to him who mates.

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I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

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

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