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

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

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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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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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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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

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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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