You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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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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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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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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