Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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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.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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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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