At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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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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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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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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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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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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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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