It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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 test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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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.
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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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