1. "Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
2. "Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
3. "I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go"
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
4. "A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
5. "I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
6. "It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
7. "Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
8. "Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
9. "unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories"
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
10. "We all have souls of different ages"
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned