One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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