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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."
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"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."
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"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."
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"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."
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"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."
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"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
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"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."
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"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."
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"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."
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"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."
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"Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both."
Humor
"He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free."
Fear
"Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir."
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"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
Expression
"What fire does not destroy, it hardens."
Strength
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world."
Humor
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
Style
"Men know life too early women know life too late."
Society
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
Relationship
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
Society
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