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31.
“This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.”
Douglas Adams
Praise
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Humor
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Exaggeration
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Metaphor
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Absurdity
32.
“The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.”
Douglas Adams
Responsibility
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Perspective
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Nature
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Metaphor
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Collective Impact
33.
“It’s as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.”
John Grisham
Life
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Inevitability
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Humor
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Metaphor
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Personal Reflection
34.
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Temporality
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Experience
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Disillusionment
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Metaphor
35.
“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Weather
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Time
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Metaphor
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Description
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Melancholy
36.
“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty
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Transience
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Nature
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Life Cycle
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Metaphor
37.
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing
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Creativity
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Effort
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Metaphor
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Skill
38.
“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
Personality
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Sensitivity
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Life
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Metaphor
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Observation
39.
“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Materialism
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Reality
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Dreams
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Existence
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Metaphor
40.
“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Speech
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Uniqueness
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Communication
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Metaphor
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Transience
41.
“Kiss me a paragraph and I'll reply with a novel.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love
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Communication
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Writing
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Romance
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Metaphor
42.
“The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature
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Imagery
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Description
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Sunset
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Metaphor
43.
“Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Human Nature
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Personality
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Metaphor
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Observation
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Simplification
44.
“No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Honesty
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Human Nature
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Cynicism
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Truth
,
Metaphor
45.
“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emotion
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Inner Turmoil
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Passion
,
Human Nature
,
Metaphor
46.
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Healing
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Scars
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Human Experience
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Writing
,
Metaphor
47.
“He dispensed starlight to casual moths.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Metaphor
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Charisma
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Attraction
,
Human Nature
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Poetic Description
48.
“Life was a damned muddle – a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of – everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life
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Chaos
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Metaphor
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Fairness
,
Human Nature
49.
“January, the Monday of months.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time
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Metaphor
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Mood
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Seasons
,
Perspective
50.
“Breathing dreams like air.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dreams
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Aspiration
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Metaphor
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Human Nature
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Inspiration
51.
“But the brilliance, the versatility of madness is akin to the resourcefulness of water seeping through, over, and around a dike.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madness
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Adaptability
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Metaphor
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Resilience
,
Human Nature
52.
“He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Knowledge
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Fragility
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Books
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Metaphor
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Interconnectedness
53.
“Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Secrets
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Emotions
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Hidden Feelings
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Metaphor
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Letting Go
54.
“No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depth
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Exploration
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Human Nature
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Pessimism
,
Metaphor
55.
“The sea, he thought, had treasured its memories deeper than the faithless land.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory
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Nature
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Fidelity
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Metaphor
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Reflection
56.
“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anticipation
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Cosmic Imagery
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Perception
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Metaphor
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Patience
57.
“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change
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Perspective
,
Nature
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Metaphor
,
Contrast
58.
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kindness
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Impact
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Positivity
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Human Interaction
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Metaphor
59.
“You have your face bare; I am all face.”
Michel de Montaigne
Identity
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Appearance
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Authenticity
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Self-expression
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Metaphor
60.
“Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?”
Michel de Montaigne
Stubbornness
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Dogmatism
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Stupidity
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Critique
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Metaphor
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