The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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To 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.
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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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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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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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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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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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