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“Don’t worry about being good. Worry about saying things precisely. Worry about saying things in a way that makes them more than what they are.”
― The Adult
― The Adult
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“The moon in her chariot of pearl”
― The Nightingale and the Rose
― The Nightingale and the Rose
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