Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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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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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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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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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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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 see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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