“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
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“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
--The Sensible Thing”
― The Short Stories
--The Sensible Thing”
― The Short Stories
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