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"Each time you happen to me all over again."
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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."
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"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."

"Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats."

"You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!"

"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."

"Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
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"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."

"We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop."

"Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore."
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