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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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

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

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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

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Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

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She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

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