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 FITZGERALDNever confuse activity with action.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Life 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.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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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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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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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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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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