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    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: friendship, insincerity, manners
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: drinking, rebirth
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
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    Jack Kerouac
    “everybody saying "O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", how do you know he doesnt hate what He did: He might even be drunk and not noticing what he went and done”
    ― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: friendship, gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: drinking
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: attainment, desire
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: drinking
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: alcohol, drinking, sobriety
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: loneliness
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: friendship
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm a cynical idealist.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: daisy, year
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “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, The Great Gatsby
    tags: humor
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: chose, everything, heavy, never, nothing, tired, to-bear, world
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: all, better-go, just, leaving, words
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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