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Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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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.

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Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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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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he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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