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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. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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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" Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. "
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" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. "
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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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" First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. "
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" Forgotten is forgiven. "
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" Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. "
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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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" Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. "
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" Action is character. "
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" Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. "
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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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" You can stroke people with words. "
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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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" Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. "
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" Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. "
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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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Great
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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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" 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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You
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" To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. "
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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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" The victor belongs to the spoils. "
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" The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. "
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" The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. "
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" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "
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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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" 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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