Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSuddenly 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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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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