To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThings 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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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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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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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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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 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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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