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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDFor 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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