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.
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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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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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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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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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