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“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as the seniors at Rye when I was in the sixth grade; people who knew everything instincti...”
“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect all the prerogatives of being an artist without ever doing the work. I mean he's an ...”
“He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didnt try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders.The whole po...”
“You see? I don’t know what ‘mature’ means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn’t know. It’s all just words to me, Frank. I watch you talking and I think: Isn’t that amazing? He ...”
“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
“Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.”
“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”
“He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders.…The whole ...”
