More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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.
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.
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
