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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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