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 FITZGERALDLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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 won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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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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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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