It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThere’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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