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More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
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.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
