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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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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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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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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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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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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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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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