I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHer philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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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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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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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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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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