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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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" There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. "

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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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" At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. "

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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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" Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. "

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" Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. "

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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "

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" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "

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" There are no second acts in American lives. "

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

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" Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. "

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" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. "

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" The victor belongs to the spoils. "

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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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" 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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" No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. "

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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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" No decent career was ever founded on a public. "

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" Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. "

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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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