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- You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
- Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
- To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special…
- To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
- So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I…
- Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin…
- It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
- Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
- Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go…
- In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
- He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come…
- I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability…
- It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many…
- Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;…
- It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment…
- She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or…
- I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going…
- Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
- the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and…
- But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope…
- I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions…
- How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be…
- There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind,…
- Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere…
- They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle