Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWell, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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