It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNever confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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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.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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