You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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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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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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