Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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.
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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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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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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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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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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.
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