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

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

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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

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

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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