I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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