It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat 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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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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 wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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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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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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