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.
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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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