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 FITZGERALDHer philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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 want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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