Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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