A quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

We’re required to tell stories in order to sell our work and our talents, and after enough time, forget where the line is that separates our fictions from reality.

true. I remembered Fitzgerald’s famous dictum All life is a process of breaking down, and there I had to disagree.

our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there’s only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one l