the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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