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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

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It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

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"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

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Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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It takes two to make an accident.

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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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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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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

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Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

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Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

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