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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

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

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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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I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

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Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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

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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

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i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

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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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You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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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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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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