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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

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We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

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Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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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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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

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You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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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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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

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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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