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They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

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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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Her voice is full of money.

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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

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...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

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A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

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I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

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In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

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...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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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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I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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