The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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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 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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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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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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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