There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDEither 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 won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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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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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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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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