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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

Never confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Activity One Liner
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Growth Mindset Myself People Place See
The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Himself Oneself Reason Writing
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Herself Philosophy
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Hope Life Live Proud Strength Worth Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Addiction Alcohol Bad Right
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
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Book Myself People Value
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
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Friendship Knowledge Love Save Wisdom 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
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Himself Listening Patience Stars Wait
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Enough Persistence Start Yourself
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

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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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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