At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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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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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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