Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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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?
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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.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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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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