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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
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"I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts."
Motivation
"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
Fame
"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
Romance
"Character is plot, plot is character."
Writing
"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."
Writing
"I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death."
Emotion
"Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen."
Creativity
"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."
Opinion
"Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees-he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."
Wonder
"When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it."
Emotion
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