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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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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

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

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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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

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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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