Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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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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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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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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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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