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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

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

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He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

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Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

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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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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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I hope you live a life you're proud of...

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I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

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It's a mining town in lotus land.

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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

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