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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Experience Mistake People
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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Collection Information Life Myself Writing
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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Eyes Gorgeous Herself Mindset Mirror Sadness
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Fall Hard Time Life Start
So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Course Flow Sorry
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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Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
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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Met Myself People Rude
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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Block Book Reading Side Yourself
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Cave Hide Ourselves
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Confusion Defeat
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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Book Myself People Value
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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Day End Myself Time
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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Bad Hands Lost Myself
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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Future Herself Lost Past Realization Regret
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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Art Creativity Important Intensity Life Process

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