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" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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" There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. "
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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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" 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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" At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. "
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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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" 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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" First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. "
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" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. "
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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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" 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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" You can stroke people with words. "
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" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. "
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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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" There are no second acts in American lives. "
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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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" It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. "
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