It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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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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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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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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