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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!
For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.
She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.
It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.
he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?
It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.
Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.
Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.
If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.