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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNever confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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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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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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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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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.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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