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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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.

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.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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.

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.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald