Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI’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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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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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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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