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“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

“There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
― John Keats

“I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
― Johnny Cash

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde