I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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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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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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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.
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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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