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"His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the moment when the backbone of the day should be broken, when he should have met the girl at last, talked to her, and then bowed her laughter out the door, returning only to the melancholy dregs in the teacups and the gathering staleness of the uneaten sandwiches."
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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
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"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."
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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
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"I miss you something awful sometimes."
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
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"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."
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"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
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"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."
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"I'm not offended until you think I'm offended."
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"My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Poetry
"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
Politics
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
People
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
People
"Action is character."
Action
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
Thought
"You can stroke people with words."
People
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
Dream
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
Man
"That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes without saying; but we shall do more than this - we shall give them a free start, not loading them up with our own ideas and experiences, nor advising them to live according to our lights. We were burned in the fire here and there, but - who knows? - fire may not burn our children, and if we warn them away from it they may end by never growing warm. We will not even inflict our cynicism on them as the sentimentality of our fathers was inflicted on us. The most we will do is urge a little doubt, asking that the doubt be exercised on our ideas as well as on all the mortal things in this world."
Parenting
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