The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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 love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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She 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.
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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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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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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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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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