They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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