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- Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
- All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
- Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't…
- The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the…
- The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
- Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia…
- If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill…
- Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We…
- For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
- I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.
- She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world,…
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