The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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 suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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 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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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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 was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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