Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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 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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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The 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 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.
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