In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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