The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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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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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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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