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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

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Mothers are all slightly insane.

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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 1st, 1919

Died: January 27th, 2010

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