Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNever confuse activity with action.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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 is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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