The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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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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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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