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- Heart
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
- Final
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
- First-Rate
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
- Business
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
- Inspirational
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
- Enough
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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 that won't heal because there's not enough material.
- Power
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
- Man
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
- Next
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
- Forgiveness
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Forgotten is forgiven.
- Friends
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
- Life
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
- Me
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
- Morning
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- Blind Man
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
- Luck
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
- Say
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
- American
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There are no second acts in American lives.
- Joke
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
- Girl
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
- Hands
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
- Day
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
- Conference
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
- Library
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
- American Women
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
- Greatest
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
- Poetry
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
- Love
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
- Decent
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
- Matter
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
- People
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
- Character
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Action is character.
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You can stroke people with words.
- Lose
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
- Person
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
- Great
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- Harmonious
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
- Me
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
- Children
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
- Hide
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
- Different
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