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" Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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" Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. "

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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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" Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. "

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" The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. "

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" After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. "

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