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.
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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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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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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 remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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