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 FITZGERALDYou are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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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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