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

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

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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

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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 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 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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