Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.