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He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises ...more

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And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the...more

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Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe now, free from al...more

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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it vanish in a long sickness. But while a personality is...more

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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 courte...more

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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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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

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I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

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I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.

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Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.