So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDShe was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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.
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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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