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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Hope Life Live Start Strength Worth Yourself
You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Help Imagination Slave World Yourself
She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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Forever Herself Himself Safety
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Blank Fall Life Lonely World
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Persistence Start
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Myself Reminder Time Tired
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Affection Live Occupation People Space Yourself
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Desire Himself Kiss Man Wife Woman
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Love Person Praise Yourself
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Day Generosity Live Night Smile Worth
You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Block Book Reading Side Yourself
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Chance Fall Life Start
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Fall Hard Time Life Start
No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Exploration Low Unknown Yourself
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Intimacy Recover
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Criticism Life Opportunity Remember Yourself
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Competition Hold Mindset Yourself
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Better Myself Word Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Myself People Secret Talk Wonderful
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Live Occupation People Space
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Growth Mindset Myself People Place See
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Argument Intelligence Measurement Person See
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 FITZGERALD

Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Boredom Desire Emotion Hate Myself Slave
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?
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Eyes Gorgeous Herself Mindset Mirror Sadness
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Experience Mistake Name People

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