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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

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But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

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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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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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There are no second acts in American lives.

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A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

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Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

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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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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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