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I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

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Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

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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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Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

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