“Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space.”
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
“It takes two to make an accident.”
“One emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.”
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’“
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
“They’re a rotten crowd… You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had.”
“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….”
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.”
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.”
“As I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.”
