So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNever confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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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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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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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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