I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAnd I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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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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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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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 am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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Having 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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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