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Swimming Lessons
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The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.
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Ernest Hemingway
“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I...”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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