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

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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

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

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

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