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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.

"The Great Gatsby"

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