The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAnd I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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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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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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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