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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courte...more

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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.

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Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

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Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

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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 ...more

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second preten...more

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My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to ...more

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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.

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The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an...more

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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be develop...more

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I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises ...more

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises ...more