To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI’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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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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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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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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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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