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

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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

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

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You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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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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The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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Kiss me now, love me now.

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Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.

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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

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Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

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So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

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...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

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