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

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

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

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

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