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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Myself People Secret Talk Wonderful
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Flow Life Move On Past Philosophy
I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Boredom Desire Emotion Hate Myself Slave
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Live Occupation People Space
And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Break Drink End Healing Human Ideas Ourselves
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Collection Information Life Myself Writing
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Forget Myself Sad Stranger Try
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Argument Intelligence Measurement Person See
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Life Myself Variety
And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Broken End Healing Human Ideas Love
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Enough Persistence Start Yourself
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Combination Intelligence Love Mystery Rare Yourself
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Determination Hope Oneself Pain
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 FITZGERALD

Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Bad Hands Lost Myself
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Cave Hide Ourselves

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