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More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
Never confuse activity with action.
the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
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.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
