“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.”
“I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.”
“If I never learned from my mistakes, I would never learn at all”
“He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never again.”
“I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.”
“Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.”