F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I don't like to look typical.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
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Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
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To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
