“Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.”
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“Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.”
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“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
“I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.”
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“I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.”
“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”
“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where...”
“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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“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”
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“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
“The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.”
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“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...”
“I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the ev...”
“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”
“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”
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“I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.”