It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald 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 FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald
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