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 FITZGERALDIt is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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?
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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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