Never confuse activity with action.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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 never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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