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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged i...more

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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

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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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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her ey...more

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Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together, fine talks between the loves of the white nights,...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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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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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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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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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.