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 FITZGERALDI’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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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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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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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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We all have souls of different ages.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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