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.
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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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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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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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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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