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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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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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When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

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

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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

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There are no second acts in American lives.

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Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

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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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...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

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