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The most successful flouncing out in indignation is done through swinging doors.
He had not been drinking, and he had a kind of surly-sober manner that men sometimes get who are temporarily on the wagon but usually good drinkers.
He looked down at his hands, which were making “Here’s the Church, here’s the steeple, open the door and there’s all the people.”
Popular men and women in college make a business of being popular. Well-liked people do things without getting disliked for them.
When you are a year away from a day that (because of some Thing) was not like other days you are as far away from the day and as far away from the thing, good or bad, as you will ever get. If it is bad, it is far enough away. Its effect may last, but there is no use kidding yourself that you live the thing over again. Something is missing. One thing that is missing in living it in retrospect is the reality; you know when you start that what you are about to recall is only, so far as this moment is concerned, a kind of dreaming.
Music, too, is to be enjoyed, and we might as well face it: it must have human associations if it is to be enjoyed. The same way with love.
Some of the most famous people in history were bastards.
If he went at her threateningly she might tell him to go ——— himself, but if he went at it in the right way he might easily get her to agree to everything.
