So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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