Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBegin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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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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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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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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