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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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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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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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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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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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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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