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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“We all have souls of different ages”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott

“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.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“How different it all was from what you'd planned.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

“It was midsummer, but fresh water from the gasping sprinklers made the lawn glitter like spring.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

“I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

“sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz