She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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• He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never again romp like the mind of God.
• No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
• This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”
• What I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
• At the worst I accepted Hollywood with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house.