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 FITZGERALDI suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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