Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt 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.
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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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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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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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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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.
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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 starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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