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"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
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"I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world."

"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."

"If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal."

"There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going."

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

"The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water."

"Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it."

"A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them."
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"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."

"I found something! Courage--just that, courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."

"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."

"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."

"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

"She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end."
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