I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDCelibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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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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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.
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