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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Be Yourself Late Time Worth
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Art Creativity Important Intensity Life Process
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Experience Mistake Name People
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Future Herself Lost Past Realization Regret
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Care Cry Fire Myself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Hard Hurt Life People Worst
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Body Deep Mindset
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Friendship Knowledge Love Save Wisdom Yourself
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Desire Himself Kiss Man Wife Woman
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Day Generosity Live Night Smile Worth
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Dedication Effort Enough Inspirational Start Yourself
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Better Myself Word Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Literature Lonely Yourself
Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Essence Forget Yourself

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