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- Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That…
- The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
- Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction,…
- In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
- It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
- There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all…
- If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
- If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
- The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
- ...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...
- Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
- In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only…
- ...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
- I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another…
- Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment;…
- The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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