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 FITZGERALDTo be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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.
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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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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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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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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.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to 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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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