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There's a writer for you,Ђќ he...

There's a writer for you,Ђќ he said. 'Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.Ђќ [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writersЂ'because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answerЂ'still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward tryingЂ'only to see their f

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It seemed that the only lover ...

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

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She was feeling the pressure o...

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

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The greatest profound pain is ...

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

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The water reached up for her, ...

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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Now he realized the truth: tha...

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and im

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Possibly it had occurred to hi...

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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he found what a grotesque thin...

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

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She looked at me and laughed p...

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

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The notion of sitting down and...

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst th...

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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You don't know what a trial it...

You don't know what a trial it is to be Ђ'like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

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But with every word she was dr...

But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

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Dishonesty in a woman is a thi...

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

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good manners are an admission ...

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

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A sense of the fundamental dec...

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

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Celibacy goes deeper than the ...

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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She was beautiful, but not lik...

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 eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

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Then she added in a sort of ch...

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

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Almost everybody can be imagin...

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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