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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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Myself People Secret Talk Wonderful
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
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
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Comedy Hero Life Thinking Tragedy Writing Yourself
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Blank Fall Life Lonely World
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Competition Hold Mindset Yourself
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 FITZGERALD

Bad Hands Lost Myself
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
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Eyes Gorgeous Herself Mindset Mirror Sadness
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Argument Intelligence See Side Validation
I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Habit Kiss Myself
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 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Kind Love Relationship World
You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Block Book Reading Side Yourself
You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Reminder Smoking Yourself

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