Occupation: Novelist Birth: July 24, 1900 Death: March 10, 1948
Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds..
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising..
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows..
I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are be….
Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for..
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again..
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally..
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring..
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please ….
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did..
We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us..
I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to." I don't want to live - I want to love….
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right..
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather..
Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed..
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you..
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and ….
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold..
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained..
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination..
Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own..