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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

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I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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It's a mining town in lotus land.

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

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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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And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

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I've got an adjective that just fits you.

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I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

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Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

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

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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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