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• "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

• "It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."

• "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

• "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

• "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

• "At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. "

• "What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."

• "Here was a new generation, a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success, grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths to man shaken."

• "There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice."

• "Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy."

• "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."

• "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

• "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

• "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."

• "An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."

• "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

• "Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."

• "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."

• "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."

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