I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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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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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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