The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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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.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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