“Suddenly they stared at each other.”
“… not knowing that no endings were bad,”
“If there’s anything older than the old
story, it’s the new twist.”
“Everywhere I go some silly girl asks me
if I’ve read ‘This Side of Paradise.’”
“The last thing he said to me was that
he was going to work so as to forget
that there was nothing worth working for.”
“If you have any decency, you’ll let go.”
“He not only talked but reasoned in phrases.”
“As he grew older those things faded –
after that there was wine.”
“There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale
as soon as pleasure.”
“Do you think you’re any happier for being a pessimist?”
“He knew that his contempt was unreasonable.”
“It was a hard fight, but I didn’t give up
and I came through.”
“I don’t know. We just go on.”