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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

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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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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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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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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

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Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

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I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

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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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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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