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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDFor 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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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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