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

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

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

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

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

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

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