The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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We all have souls of different ages.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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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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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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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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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