So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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 remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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I 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.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Begin 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.
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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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