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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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 don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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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’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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