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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Empathy, See How Other People See, Privilege
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Confusion
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Recover Something, Lost In Time
“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Rules, Moral Compass, Desire, Self-Control, Discipline
“He's one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Bloom Too Early, Youth, Best Is Behind You
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Summer, Life Anew, Sunshine, Leaves, Trees
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Personality, Identity, Who We Are, Gesture
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Time, Past, Famous Last Lines
“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.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Honesty, Most Honest Person, Virute, Cardinal Virtues
“Sometimes if you have a difficult decision to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.”
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Tagged: Decisions, Decide, How To Handle A Difficult Problem