Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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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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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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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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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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