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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWell, 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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