No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Will father be there? she asked.John turned to her in astonishment.Your father is dead, he replied somberly. Why should he go to Hades? You have it confused with another place that was abolished long...
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Life cracked like ice!
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
Character is plot, plot is character.
America is a willingness of the heart.