Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDActually 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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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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