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 FITZGERALDTo 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 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.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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 never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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