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"He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
-f. Scott fitzgerald
The great gatsby

>> No.10864222

Such a good book. Hold these feelings close to your heart my friend!

>> No.10864279

how do you attain such a smile?

>> No.10864313
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"Then something terrible happened just as I got in the park. I dropped old Phoebe's record. It broke-into about fifty pieces. It was in a big envelope and all, but it broke anyway. I damn near cried, it made me feel so terrible, but all I did was, I took the pieces out of the envelope and put them in my coat pocket. They weren't any good for anything, but I didn't feel like just throwing them away."

- J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

>> No.10864330

>>10864279
Personally I try not to look at it like "how do I smile like that", and more like "what might make me happy enough to really want to smile like that". If you look within yourself and try to find your own beauty as a person, not compared to other things, you might find that fun! And look at how easy it is for me to want to help you here and just talk about how I think of things, there is literally nothing stopping you from doing that all the time with anyone in your daily life

>> No.10864333

>>10864206
If John Green wrote this we'd all be joaning it

>> No.10864337

>>10864206
Cringe-worthy quotes itt?

>> No.10864341

>>10864333
but he didn't

>> No.10864343

>>10864333
>the ethos of a bad writer is bad
why do people complain about this?

>> No.10864353

>>10864333
>I'm retarded so you guys must be retarded too

>> No.10864366

>>10864333
imagine not being able to discern actual genuine feelings from saccharine ya bullshit

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>>10864333
>if stale bread wasn't stale we'd be eating it
>if mean people were nice we'd be liking them
>if left was right we'd turn different ways
>if gravity was up instead of down we'd live on the cieling
>if sad man frog was no sad we he be happy

>> No.10864369

>>10864341
>>10864343
>>10864353
>>10864366
>>10864367
Lmaoooo you mad bro?

>> No.10864700

>>10864206
cringe