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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.Best?
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.Best?
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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.Best?
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The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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.Best?
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Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.Best?
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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.Best?
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I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.Best?
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An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.Best?
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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.Best?
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He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.Best?
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.Best?
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.Best?
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say.Best?
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning-/ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Best?
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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.Best?
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At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.Best?
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.Best?
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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.Best?
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I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.Best?
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