It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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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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Well, 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.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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