Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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