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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

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Murder your darlings.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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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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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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