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" Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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" There are no second acts in American lives. "
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" His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. "
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" You can stroke people with words. "
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" Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. "
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" Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. "
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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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" It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. "
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" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "
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" In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. "
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" When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. "
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" Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. "
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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "
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" The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. "
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" Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. "
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" No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. "
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" Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. "
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" It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. "
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" Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. "
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" It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. "
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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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" 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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" Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. "
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" Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. "
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" Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. "
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