I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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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.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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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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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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