So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLong 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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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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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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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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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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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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