A quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that part of the beauty of all literature is “You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
from Into the mind of designer & co-founder Brian Collins - mymind
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That’s when it hit me.
I knew my stories.
Suddenly, I was beating the blank page. The more life experiences I recalled, the more enriched and enlivened I became. It was as though I was just discovering the gifts hidden in my past. I’d never understood the importance of self-reflection. The truth is, life moves too quickly to fully appreciate or craft
... See morefrom Why You Should Start Living in the Past by Rick Lewis
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
from The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
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