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

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

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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

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

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

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

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