I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThey slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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