The sun had gone down behind ...

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
Never confuse activity with action.
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.