Never confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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