| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Her voice is full of money. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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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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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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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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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. |
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by 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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- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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