One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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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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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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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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