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

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

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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

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