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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBefore you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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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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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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