"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"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.“
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
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"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
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