To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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