Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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