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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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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

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

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

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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

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

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