"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...












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"I wish I had done everything on earth with you
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
"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...
"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,...
"You've got an awfully kissable mouth.
"He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.
"Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
"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...
"I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
"I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.
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"I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
"Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.