Thirty the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
F Scott
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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Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.
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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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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
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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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Either you thinkor else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
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Divergent thinking
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[But soon afterward, the decision blew up in Hillary's face. Breaking her habit, she read Newsweek the first week of August and found herself characterized in a column by Joe Klein as the] Daisy Buchanan of the Baby Boom Political Elite... Why hasn't she come forward and said, 'Stop torturing my staff. This isn't about them. I'll testify. I'll make all documents available. I'll sit there and answer your stupid, salacious questions until Inauguration Day, if need be.'
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