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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt 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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That 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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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.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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 don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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