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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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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
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    ― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
    tags: philosophy
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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
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: demographics
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, narrator, the-great-gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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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
    “All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: great-gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: humor, virtue
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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
    “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
    tags: love, pain, relationships, self
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    Mae West
    “A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: confidence, relationships, women
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anger, battles, betrayal, consequences, divorce, fights, hurt, judgement, justice, letting-go, love, low-self-esteem, moving-on, pain, relationships, revenge, self-worth, seperation, vindication
    1864 likes

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    Stephanie Klein
    “What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”
    ― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
    tags: divorce, marrige, relationships
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: life, love, reality, relationships
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  • #24
    pleasefindthis
    “You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
    ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
    tags: break-ups, endings, forgetting-the-past, love, past, relationships
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    Katerina Stoykova Klemer
    “Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”
    ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer
    tags: breaking-up, love, moving-on, relationships
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    Mandy Hale
    “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: breakups, dating, heartbreak, holding-out-for-the-best, letting-go, love, moving-on, not-settling, positive-thinking, relationships, settling, the-single-woman
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love, marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters, spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: diplomacy, empowerment, life, relationships, subtlety
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    Henny Youngman
    “Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”
    ― Henny Youngman
    tags: funny, marriage, men, relationships, women
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    Brian Andreas
    “He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”
    ― Brian Andreas
    tags: adoration, love, relationships, story-people
    1412 likes



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