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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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Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

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in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

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All things come to him who mates.

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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

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Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

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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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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

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I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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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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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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Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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