F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Discipline Quotes

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

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Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

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sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

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To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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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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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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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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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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