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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHaving once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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 world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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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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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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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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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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