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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBefore you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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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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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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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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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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