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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Collection Information Life Myself Writing
So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Course Flow Sorry
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Hope Myself Person Romantic
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Cave Hide Ourselves
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Kind Love Relationship World
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Literature Lonely Yourself
No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Exploration Low Unknown Yourself
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Fall Hard Time Life Start
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Herself Philosophy
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Feeling Herself Presence Pressure Right
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Fake Substitution Time Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Cost Day Light Morning Night Smile Worth
You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Block Book Reading Side Yourself
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Competition Hold Mindset Yourself
Never confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Activity One Liner

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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