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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #3
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #4
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #5
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #8
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #14
    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

  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It takes two to make an accident.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #19
    David Benioff
    “Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.”
    David Benioff, City of Thieves

  • #20
    David Benioff
    “Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”
    David Benioff, City of Thieves

  • #21
    David Benioff
    “I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
    David Benioff, City of Thieves

  • #22
    David Benioff
    “I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”
    David Benioff, City of Thieves

  • #23
    David Benioff
    “I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.”
    David Benioff, City of Thieves

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #26
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #27
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #28
    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #29
    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland



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