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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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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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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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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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