To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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