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More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.
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.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
