F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Grief Quotes, Steps Quotes

Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

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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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Forgotten is forgiven.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

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I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

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The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

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

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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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You can stroke people with words.

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It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

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Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

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