There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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 don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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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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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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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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