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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .

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

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What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

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Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at ...more

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Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief- that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that wit...more

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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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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It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

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He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any ...more

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But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you...more

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I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.