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" Action is character. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Action
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" I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. "
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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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" Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. "
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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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" The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. "
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" Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. "
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" An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. "
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" Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. "
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" Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. "
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" Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. "
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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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" There are no second acts in American lives. "
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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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" What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? "
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" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "
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" There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. "
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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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" Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. "
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" I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. "
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" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "
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" Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. "
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