To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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 loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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