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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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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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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but 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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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