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“What are you going to do?
"Can't say - run for president, write -"
"Greenwich Village?"
"Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.”
― This Side of Paradise
"Can't say - run for president, write -"
"Greenwich Village?"
"Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.”
― This Side of Paradise
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
― The Crack-Up
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
― The Crack-Up
“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.”
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“Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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