I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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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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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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