Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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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 never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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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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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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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I 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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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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