The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI 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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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 remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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