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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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Well, 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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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