I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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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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 a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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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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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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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