They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBegin 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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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Intelligence 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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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 not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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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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