And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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We all have souls of different ages.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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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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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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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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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 are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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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 reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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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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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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