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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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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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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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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 want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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