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" The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eyes
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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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" 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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" Action is character. "
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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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" 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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" A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. "
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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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" There are no second acts in American lives. "
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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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" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "
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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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" Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. "
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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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" Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. "
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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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" 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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" You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. "
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" Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. "
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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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" Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. "
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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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" A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. "
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" Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. "
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