Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSomeday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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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.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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