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" His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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" The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. "
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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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" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "
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" You can stroke people with words. "
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" Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. "
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" Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. "
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" The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. "
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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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" Forgotten is forgiven. "
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" At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. "
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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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" What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? "
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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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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "
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" Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. "
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" Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. "
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" Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. "
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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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" 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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" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "
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" Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. "
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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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" My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. "
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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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" Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. "
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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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" No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. "
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