What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

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

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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 romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.

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