You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife 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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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