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I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and w...more

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

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Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on suc...more

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I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great ...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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Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am sl...more

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promi...more

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I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock beca...more